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Brian Mundubile is a lawyer by profession and a former government minister

Zambia's opposition leader charged with treason

Standing over 12 meters (39 feet) tall, the state-of-the-art observatory launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

Multi-year mission

NASA launches Roman telescope on cosmic mapping mission

Residents of Niamey said that businesses were again operating as normal

Capital of Niger

Niamey back to normal after soldier mutiny

Nepali rescuers trying to reach hydropower workers believed trapped in tunnels swamped by flood debris deployed heavy machinery, after rain and rising river waters hampered earlier efforts

Nepal rescuers advance towards trapped tunnel workers

Families in Nepal's southern Bharatpur watched a screen to identify flood victims

Identifying victims

Grisly search for missing as Nepal morgues overflow, burials begin

Investigation ongoing

One dead and five injured in shooting at Swiss rave party

Fire and rescue personnel conduct search and rescue operations 2 kilometers from Gyirong Port days after the August 26 mudslide

Through leg-sucking mud

Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood tops 3,000

Vietnam last year became China's biggest supplier of durian by volume

Central Highlands

Vietnamese coffee farmers ride China's durian wave

The disaster has left vast areas under thick mud, complicating rescue efforts

Villages reduced to mud

Nepal flood survivors return to ruins to salvage memories

Venezuelans view a new oil deal with the United States with hope and skepticism

'Biggest oil deal in world history'

Venezuela says retains 'sovereignty' in US oil deal

Alia al-Hallaq said she still couldn't accept the death of her nine-year-old, Mohammed

Killing of Palestinian children and teens by Israel surges in West Bank

United Airlines Flight 175 is seen approaching the south tower of the World Trade Center as smoke billows from the north tower in New York on September 11, 2001

Hearing the first-hand accounts

Educators keep 9/11 memory alive for next generation, 25 years on

Data centers, like this facility in Stone Ridge, Virginia, have sparked anger over noise and rising energy bills in residential areas across America

Data center backlash scrambles US midterm politics

The disaster has left vast areas under thick mud, complicating rescue efforts

From rescue attempts to aid requests

Nepal-China floods disaster: Latest developments

According to the Nepal Tourism Board, 33 British nationals are among the hundreds of foreigners reported missing

Collective trauma

Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood nears 3,000

Air force base 101 is housed in the international airport complex in Niamey

Niger junta says it is back in control after soldiers' mutiny

This handout photo shows British right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos following his detention at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana, on August 27, 2026

US deports right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

Israeli soldiers arrive in the village of Qusra after a group of settlers occupied a building while Palestinians were inside

Netanyahu condemns settler attack in flashpoint West Bank village

Flooding and mudslides at the Tibet-Nepal border has left nearly 3,000 people missing, with 682 confirmed dead

Growing concerns

UN, Nepal warn of climate threat after deadly floods

Liverpool winger Victor Munoz celebrates scoring against Nottingham Forest

Munoz saves Iraola in Liverpool draw, big-spending Spurs lose again

Harald's son immediately took the throne as King Haakon VIII of Norway

Norway's King Haakon VIII pays tribute to late father in first speech

South Africa wing Cheslin Kolbe chases after the ball against New Zealand in Cape Town

South Africa survive onslaught to beat New Zealand and level series

According to the Nepal Tourism Board, 33 British nationals are among the hundreds of foreigners reported missing

Pilgrims in the region

In London, son's agonising wait for news of parents missing in Nepal-Tibet floods

Die Bundesregierung sieht einem Medienbericht zufolge Russland hinter dem Drohnenvorfall in Leipzig: Berlin plane, in den kommenden Tagen Moskau offiziell für den versuchten Sprengstoffdrohnenanschlag von Anfang August verantwortlich zu machen.

Measures to be announced next week

Germany believes Russia was behind Leipzig drone incident: media reports

Archaeologists inspect an artifact found in the northern coastal Lebanese town of Batroun on August 14, 2026

Lasting culture

Lebanon archaeological finds showcase rich heritage despite war woes

Cross-border commute

Two more trains an hour to run between Marbehan and Luxembourg from December

A woman looks at photographs of the missing and dead following flash floods in Nepal, outside a hospital in Kathmandu

The missing in Nepal-Tibet flash floods

India two-time Olympic javelin medallist Neeraj Chopra

Olympic javelin medallist

India's Neeraj Chopra out for season with ankle injury

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