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Houses damaged by the overflowing Mahaweli River following Cyclone Ditwah, in Kandy, Sri Lanka on December 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Shaky social media visuals of the Rasuwa floods in Nepal have rattled the world. With over 1,250 lives lost so far — over 4,000 people are still missing — the extent of devastation…
On her website, Gloria Steinem describes herself as a “feminist organizer”, a doer, as most women are. Until the end, she hosted Talking Circles, at her New York home, where people gathered do the rough-and-tumble work of activism, but also the gentler work of community building. This “movement building” is what Steinem will always be…
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Iran attacked U.S. military bases in Kuwait on Thursday (September 3, 2026), despite President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war. The new clashes, which began with U.S. raids on Sunday (August 30, 2026), deepen the ongoing impasse in the war, as Iran maintains a stranglehold on the…
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El Nino is forecast to be the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago, the United Nations’ climate agency warned on Thursday (September 3, 2026), with the UN chief saying the world was in the “danger zone of extreme weather”. The weather phenomenon is set to become “very strong” in the months ahead and…
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The death toll due to the devastating flash floods in Nepal rose to 1,259 on Thursday (September 3, 2026) as the disaster authority also reported a sharp rise in the number of missing, at 5,083. More bodies were recovered from the affected areas, while risks of fresh floods loomed due to incessant rainfall in the…
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Foreign weapons, military technology, fighters and logistical networks are helping sustain Sudan’s conflict and expanding the warring parties’ ability to strike distant civilian areas with drones, a UN fact-finding mission said on Thursday (September 3, 2026). Sudan’s war, which erupted in April 2023 following a power struggle between the military and the Rapid Support Forces…
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At least 15 terrorists have been killed and their attempt to infiltrate the border in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province foiled by security forces, the military’s media wing said on Thursday (September 3, 2026). The terrorists belonging to Fitna al-Khawarij were trying to infiltrate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border opposite North Waziristan district on the intervening night of…
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski. File | Photo Credit: AP The leader of Britain’s left-wing Green Party intends to stand in an election for a seat in Parliament vacated by former Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a local newspaper reported on Thursday (September 3, 2026). Zack Polanski told the Camden New Journal he would be…
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Major artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, faced disruptions. File | Photo Credit: AP Major artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, experienced significant service disruptions on Thursday (September 3, 2026), affecting thousands of users globally, according to outage tracking website Downdetector. The disruption also appeared to impact Grok…
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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Belgium’s Minister of Defence Theo Francken during a meeting in New Delhi, on September 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: X/@rajnathsingh Belgium has assured India that it will not pursue defence cooperation or provide technological assistance to Pakistan, sources in the government said on Thursday, following bilateral talks between Defence…
