Thu 27 August 2026: At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal, destroying villages, roads, bridges and power infrastructure near the border with Tibet. Nepal Police said late on Wednesday that 157 bodies had been recovered, while emergency teams continued searching for survivors […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: More than 1,000 people from across the United States have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for the cancellation of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s planned event at Madison Square Garden in New York on August 29. The letters, gathered by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and allied groups, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad al-Alimi on Wednesday ordered the closure of any port or border crossing operating outside government law as part of measures to combat smuggling and disrupt arms and financing networks supporting the Houthis, according to Yemen’s official Saba news agency, Anadolu reports. Al-Alimi issued the order while chairing […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The US Treasury Department on Wednesday designated the British group Palestine Action as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Anadolu reports. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for administering US economic sanctions, added the group to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN). The designation was made […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The U.S. said Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation that broke into some of the country’s most sensitive government institutions, including the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Senate. The Justice Department said authorities had seized domains linked to two hacking platforms used in the campaign, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have returned to the UK six years after stepping away from their roles as senior working members of Britain’s royal family and starting a new life in California, according to media reports Wednesday. Prince Harry, Meghan and their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: A picture taken by a Palestinian photographer was removed from a sports photography festival in the French coastal city of Deauville after organizers got requests from unnamed sources, reports said Monday. The photo at the Deauville Sport Images Festival was replaced with an image of cyclists, local newspaper Le Pays d’Auge […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: South Africa can produce enough food for its population, according to official statistics. But millions face hunger, partly because food is lost and wasted in the value chain. An estimated 10.3 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the country, 19% of it fresh produce. A substantial portion of this loss and waste occurs during harvesting, transportation and marketing in […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri rejected allegations from US prosecutors that the company withheld damaging information from the public, as he took the stand in a major federal trial over social media’s impact on young people. “I am not trying to encourage my team to hide anything,” the CEO, Adam Mosseri, told […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: Australian authorities have opened a probe into the theft of roughly 400,000 young oysters from aquaculture sites along New South Wales’ Mid North Coast, local outlets reported on Wednesday. ABC News stated that about 320 bags holding the oysters were taken from Latitude 31 Oysters’ lease at Scotts Creek on Oxley […]
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