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Nepal warns of more possible floods as communities grapple with devastation and death toll rises
Flood warning notifications were issued to people's phones throughout Sunday morning as rescue workers tried to evacuate a main route connecting Kathmandu to one of the places most severely affected by Wednesday's devastating floods.
Around 1,300 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods caused by a glacial collapse
Officials in Nepal earlier said 826 people, including some 341 foreigners, are missing after the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli floods.
Iran to allow no military ship in Hormuz under potential deal with Oman
The latest development comes amid US President Donald Trump's threat to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way", as his administration opposes parts of the evolving deal.
Trump orders Navy to return to older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
According to a directive issued Thursday, the new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.
White House claims billions lost each year to tariff evasion through third countries
The US loses billions in annual revenue to the practice of routing goods through intermediate countries to disguise their origin, a White House report has estimated.
Europe readies for total solar eclipse- So, what will happen in the once-in-a-generation stellar spectacle?
Maximum totality will occur off Iceland’s west coast. By the time it reaches a small patch of Portugal and then Spain with its massive crowds, totality will have dwindled to a minute or so.
Over 16,000 Ukrainian civilians remain detained and tortured by Russia, UN says
The UN also reported more than 95% of the Ukrainian prisoners of war and 85% of the civilian detainees are being tortured or ill-treated, often repeatedly.
Secret Service and military wanted me off Air Force One in Turkey due to threat, Trump says
“They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane,” Trump told reporters after returning from an event in Ohio.
Trump signs order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, going against medical groups’ advice
The order recommends giving all childhood vaccinations at separate visits whenever feasible, which had earlier been blocked by a federal judge, and dividing the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into three distinct single injections
Western Europe sets new temperature record hitting 900 million people worldwide
Last month saw the highest average temperature ever recorded and alarming soil humidity figures across Western Europe, Copernicus said.
Iran launches strikes on neighbours as Trump threatens to hit power plants
Tehran's attack comes as the US military carried out a fourth night of strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump reinstated its blockade of Iranian shipping around the strait of Hormuz.