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Nepal flash flood: India sends tunnel rescue team to Nepal

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Nepal flash flood: India sends tunnel rescue team to Nepal

India had on Friday, August 28, 2026 sent a recce team for tunnel rescue operations that are urgently required to help people who are trapped in multiple under-construction hydropower project sites. Photo credit: X/DrSJaishankar A tunnel rescue team from India has reached Nepal on Saturday (August 29, 2026) to help the ongoing search-and-rescue operations in…

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Dozens of Israeli settlers attack flashpoint West Bank village

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Dozens of Israeli settlers attack flashpoint West Bank village

Luay Bayrudi, the owner of a house that came under settler attack, outside of the medical Centre in Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday (August 29, 2026), residents and the…

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Nepal flood miracle: Mother reunites with 8-year-old who climbed trees to survive

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Nepal flood miracle: Mother reunites with 8-year-old who climbed trees to survive

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Nepal floods: ‘Bodies buried in slush, families refusing food’, Khalsa Aid volunteers witness devastation

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Nepal floods: ‘Bodies buried in slush, families refusing food’, Khalsa Aid volunteers witness devastation

Thick slush swallowing houses, roads turned treacherous, the stench of decomposing bodies of people and animals hanging in the air, and army camps transformed into makeshift mortuaries where ambulances arrive carrying the dead — these are scenes from Nepal’s flood-ravaged valleys, as described by Khalsa Aid volunteers working in the worst-hit areas. For these volunteers…

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Baltimore bridge collapse: U.S. judge dismisses most remaining claims against ship owner, operator

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Baltimore bridge collapse: U.S. judge dismisses most remaining claims against ship owner, operator

Construction crews work to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland. The bridge collapsed in March 2024 after the cargo ship Dali struck a support pier, killing six construction workers. | Photo Credit: AFP A U.S. federal judge has dismissed the bulk of the remaining civil claims arising…

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Aerial view of the devastating Nepal flash floods | Graphics

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Aerial view of the devastating Nepal flash floods | Graphics

Residents return to their houses to assess the damage following the flash floods in Nuwakot district in Nepal, on August 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Flash floods in Nepal, caused by a glacial collapse along the Nepal-Tibet border, have ravaged several districts, with bodies being recovered from eight districts as of August 29, 2026….

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PM Modi’s SCO visit is loaded with expectations on BRICS Summit and UNSC election

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PM Modi’s SCO visit is loaded with expectations on BRICS Summit and UNSC election

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic is more than just an outreach to two important states in Central Asia or the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The agenda will include engagements aimed at three additional multilateral platforms — the upcoming BRICS Summit in September, the two-year UN Security Council term…

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Russian strike on warehouse in Ukraine’s Kyiv region causes detonation, killing at least 27

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Russian strike on warehouse in Ukraine’s Kyiv region causes detonation, killing at least 27

Firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 27 people were ​killed after a Russian drone strike on ‌a Kyiv-area warehouse sparked a detonation, ​officials said on Saturday (August 27, 2026), ⁠prompting calls by President…

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Nepal’s PM Disaster Relief Fund receives over ₹2 billion in three days since flash floods

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Nepal’s PM Disaster Relief Fund receives over ₹2 billion in three days since flash floods

Rescuers search for the bodies in a building along the river Trishuli following flash floods in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, on August 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP More than ₹2.295 billion has been donated to Nepal Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund since massive flash floods wreaked havoc in the Himalayan nation. The death toll from…

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