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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, officials said Wednesday, as search efforts continued following catastrophic floods that killed at least 1,118 people and left more than 3,900 missing. Nepal’s Foreign Ministry said 324 foreign nationals had been rescued so far, while about 590 from 39 countries remained missing a week after the Aug. 26 floods. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares tumbled Wednesday after stocks slipped on Wall Street and as a bond market sell-off deepened globally. U.S. futures also declined. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 3% to 64,278.95. SoftBank Group, the Japanese multinational investment holding firm which invests in OpenAI, fell 6.3%. South Korea’s Kospi lost 3.6% to 6,588.95. Samsung Electronics declined 3.3%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix fell 3.5%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped […]

OSLO, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Sweden’s ruling right-wing coalition has nearly caught up with the centre-left opposition bloc ahead of a September 13 election for parliament, a new opinion poll showed on Wednesday, pointing to a close vote in which either side could win. The country’s four centre-left parties held a combined 50.3% backing, while the coalition government stood at 47.7%, according to the August 24-30 survey of 2,984 voters […]

Sept 2 (Reuters) – Russian attacks damaged infrastructure and residential buildings in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Wednesday, Serhiy Lysak, the head of the city’s military administration, said on Telegram, adding that eight people were injured. A 24-storey apartment building and a number of cars were among the damage in the city, which is also Ukraine’s largest seaport, he said. (Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing […]

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts jury plans to deliberate a fifth day Wednesday on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her three children in 2023, amid conflicting testimony about her postpregnancy mental health. What happens if they can’t reach a verdict? A mistrial will be declared and the case essentially goes back to the same status as before the trial, with the 36-year-old former labor and […]

Sept 2 (Reuters) – Sixteen people were killed and 28 injured in a bus accident on Egypt’s Dahab-Nuweibaa road in South Sinai on Wednesday, the health ministry said in a statement. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Editing by Tom Hogue) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

FRANKFURT, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Germany has faced a second sabotage attempt on its electricity grid, with local police saying on Wednesday they are investigating an attack on a substation in the western city of Bergheim. A police spokesperson said they are investigating an act of premeditated vandalism on the technical infrastructure at 1800 GMT on Tuesday but added that the region’s power supply was unaffected. The spokesperson would not specify […]

SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Global temperature rises are set to exceed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) “within a few years”, the UN’s environmental body said on Wednesday, creating more extreme weather and intensifying pressure on ecosystems, glaciers and low-lying coastal cities.  The United Nations Environment Programme said bringing temperature rises back to below 1.5C was “possible but highly uncertain,” and would require rapid emission […]

JAKARTA, Sept 2 (Reuters) – More than 500 students in Indonesia’s East Java were hospitalised with food poisoning suspected to have been caused by state-supplied meals, regional officials said on Wednesday, as the government works to reform the agency overseeing its ambitious free-meals scheme. President Prabowo Subianto launched his multibillion-dollar programme last year to eradicate under-nutrition by giving free meals to tens of millions of children, but the scheme has suffered from controversies […]