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A study has found that climate change had contributed to the glacier collapse that unleashed devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border. More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands are missing following the deluge on 26 August. There was “absolutely no doubt that human-induced climate change played a role here …

Several people described chaos and confusion in the hospital. “There should have been fire extinguishers and protocols, but no one was doing anything,” Walid said. “Everyone was just running.” Ghafoor said that he was part of a group of seven or eight who tried to find a way to relieve …

Fiji has declared a national emergency as HIV cases surge, and is expanding access to testing, treatment and prevention services. About one in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific archipelago is now living with the bloodborne virus, compared with one in 167 five years ago, with a rising number of …

The continued deaths show the initial emergency campaign was inadequate, public health expert Dr Mushtuq Husain told the BBC. He said it left too many children unprotected and should have reached more regions and age-groups. “There are no shortcuts when it comes to a response,” he said. “The government made …

The charge will not apply to all UPI payments. Person-to-person transfers will remain free, regardless of the amount. Payments of up to 2,000 rupees made to merchants will also remain free. Merchant payments through QR codes in rural and semi-urban areas will not attract MDR either. The government said “approximately …

Unlike the Olympic Games, where there is usually a designated athletes’ village, organisers have opted to use temporary accommodation for competitors. Beyond the container huts, between 4,000 and 5,000 participants will be staying on an Italian cruise ship which docked in Nagoya on Tuesday. The rest of the attendees will …

Through interviews with Phillips’ family members, among others, the inquiry found that he was not completely cut off from the outside world. For instance, he visited his mother without the children in February 2022, during which she handed him NZ$1,000 ($575; £426) in cash and food. He also managed to …

From next year, people who attempt to climb Mount Fuji during off-peak seasons and then require rescue by helicopter will have to pay for the service, authorities governing the northern part of the peak say. The fee is among a series of measures Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture is introducing to deter …

From next year, people who attempt to climb Mount Fuji during off-peak seasons and then require rescue by helicopter will have to pay for the service, authorities governing the northern part of the peak say. The fee is among a series of measures Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture is introducing to deter …

There was little to suggest that the locked flat in Anand, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, was the headquarters of a political party. There was no signboard, campaign poster or obvious trace of political activity. But on paper, the Satyawadi Rakshak Party had recently received an extraordinary amount …

McCarthy lists who depends on it most bluntly: the elderly, the rural poor, domestic-violence victims hiding transactions from an abuser, and children learning what money is. “Some consumers,” she told me, “prefer the privacy and convenience of cash.” For India’s RBI, this creates an awkward budgeting problem. It runs its …

Police in India have detained a man after footage appearing to show a car striking a female motorcyclist in the city of Gurugram near India’s capital Delhi sparked national outrage. The incident took place on Sunday when Shivani Chauhan was riding with a group of motorcyclists. A video recorded by …

New rules governing travel to and from China have come into effect, a move that observers say will further tighten the government’s control over its citizens. Citizens deemed to have “harmed” China’s national security or interests while overseas can also be barred from leaving China for up to three years …

China has hit out against what it has called “threat narratives” over AI governance and warned against “engaging in confrontation and malicious competition”. It follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for a slowdown in AI development – but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the AI …

A Malaysian teenage boy charged with the high-profile murder of a female schoolmate has been acquitted, with the judge finding the boy was mentally unsound during the incident. He had fatally stabbed Yap Shing Xuen in a toilet at their secondary school on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur. …

Police in Bali are investigating after the bodies of an Australian man and his two children were found dead in their bungalow in a popular tourist area. Damien John Shaw, 56, and his two children, a boy aged six and a girl aged four, were found dead in their home …

An athlete’s Hyrox performance has sparked debate after completing a race in Beijing despite soiling herself midway through the event. Footage of the woman competing in the indoor fitness competition despite her soiled legs has gone viral, with some people raising concerns around hygiene and others saluting her resolve to …

Philippine authorities said it could take weeks or months to identify victims of a ferry fire that killed 76 people last week. “Most of them are already in a charred condition,” Richard Allan Mangalip, a forensic specialist from the Philippine National Police, told reporters on Sunday. Family members have been …

“This is national and international infrastructure,” he said, warning that the ecological system underpinning it is “approaching a tipping point”. Not all the forces driving glacier loss are beyond the region’s control. The Systemiq research estimates that roughly a third of Himalayan glacier melt is driven by black carbon, much …

Yang continued, “North Korean soldiers are very brave I mean, especially those of Storm Corps. They are willing to die for their country. But the problem is that passion doesn’t mean efficient combat skills… [They suffered] a lot of bloodshed in the early stage of the Kursk campaign, but they …