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A glacier collapse in Tibet caused catastrophic flash flooding Wednesday in a border area of China and Nepal. Authorities in both countries have reported more than 160 deaths and over 1,300 people missing as of Thursday. Many were foreigners in the area for trekking or a pilgrimage to a sacred Hindu site. The number of missing may vary across agencies due to differences in how they collected data, when it […]

MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Russia could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russia using British missiles. Zakharova called on Britain to back off what she called London’s hostile stance on Ukraine, which she said risked taking the conflict to an entirely new level. She had told the same Moscow news briefing […]

MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, said on Thursday that he had held a “working-level meeting” with CIA director John Ratcliffe in Moscow earlier this week and that they had discussed unspecified and sensitive matters falling within the remit of their respective intelligence services. Naryshkin said the fact that they had met was nothing unusual.  U.S. President Donald Trump has described […]

HONG KONG, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Climate change is leading to conditions that can destabilise high-mountain rock and ice, strengthening prospects for disasters such as this week’s Himalayan flood along the border between Nepal and China’s Tibet that killed 165, scientists say. At least 800 foreigners are among the nearly 1,500 missing, authorities said on Thursday, a day after a massive wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan […]

Israel Removes Netherlands From US-Backed Gaza Aid Center By The Media Line Staff Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered two Dutch representatives on Tuesday to leave a US-backed Gaza coordination center in Kiryat Gat within one week, retaliating against the Netherlands’ planned ban on products from Israeli settlements and other Dutch measures targeting Israel. Sa’ar said he made the decision with the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel notified […]

Report: Iran Targeted Yair Netanyahu in South Florida Assassination Plot By The Media Line Staff An alleged Iranian operation targeted Yair Netanyahu for assassination while he lived in South Florida, according to a US media report published Wednesday that said Israeli intelligence discovered the plan in December 2025 and warned American authorities after suspected operatives began monitoring his movements. Newsmax reported the allegations exclusively, citing an unidentified US law-enforcement source […]

14 Newborns Killed in PIMS Fire; Health Secretary Suspended, High-Level Inquiry Ordered By Arshad Mehmood/The Media Line [ISLAMABAD] At least 14 newborns were killed Wednesday morning when a fire swept through the nursery at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, marking one of Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires in recent years. PIMS, Islamabad’s largest public hospital and a major referral center, serves patients from the capital and surrounding […]

Iran’s Assassination Playbook Blurs Threat, Theater, and Action Criminal proxies, public targeting videos, and loosely organized intermediaries give Tehran deniability while creating unpredictable security risks By Giorgia Valente / The Media Line Iranian threats against American and Israeli leaders have expanded beyond presidents, military commanders, and senior policymakers to include members of their families. The immediate question is how much of the rhetoric represents psychological warfare and how much reflects […]

By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The demolition of a modernist arts complex in the Georgian capital Tbilisi has ignited outrage from some residents about the future of the city’s skyline and from the Italian architects who designed it. Known locally as the Rike Tubes, the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall was constructed between 2011 and 2012 under the previous government, led by pro-Western reformer Mikheil […]