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Landslide Triggers Flash Flood in Nepal's Gorkha, Sweeping Away Homes and Bridges
A landslide in Nepal's Gorkha district blocked the Budhi Gandaki River on Sunday, sending a wall of muddy water downstream that swept away homes, bridges and a hydropower camp — months after an August glacier collapse killed more than 1,400 people in a nearby valley.
Hurricane Isaias Makes Landfall in Florida as Category 2, Leaving Four Dead and 670,000 Without Power
Hurricane Isaias roared ashore near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm late Friday, killing at least four people and knocking out power for nearly 670,000 customers across four states — the first U.S. hurricane landfall in two years.
Hurricane Simon Intensifies to Category 4, Bearing Down on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Hurricane Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 225 km/h, threatening Mexico's Pacific coast with life-threatening flooding and mudslides across Jalisco, Michoacán, Colima and Nayarit.
Libya's eastern parliament ousts Aguila Saleh after 12 years as speaker
Libya's eastern House of Representatives has replaced Aguila Saleh, its speaker of 12 years, with Tobruk lawmaker Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi — a day after MPs voted to cap the speakership at a single 12-month term, in a shake-up analysts read as a power play by Khalifa Haftar's clan.
Hope's Heroics: West Indies Chase Down 250 to Beat India in Record T20 Thriller
Shai Hope's unbeaten 102 off 45 balls powered West Indies to a six-wicket win over India in Ranchi, completing the highest successful T20I chase in their history and the second-highest ever — levelling the five-match series 1-1.
India scraps GST officers' arrest powers, raises prosecution threshold fivefold in sweeping taxpayer relief package
India's 57th GST Council meeting removed the power of arrest under GST law, raised the prosecution threshold from Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore, cut the general penalty to Rs 10,000, and approved faster automated refunds — all taking effect from 1 April 2027.
Malaysia to work for Myanmar's reintegration into ASEAN after rare talks with military leader Min Aung Hlaing
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Kuala Lumpur would do 'whatever possible' to bring Myanmar back into ASEAN's fold, after hosting military-backed President Min Aung Hlaing on his first visit since taking power in April.
Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts Nvidia AI Power on Your Desk
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a $2,599 AI powerhouse built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, pitching a 'hybrid intelligence' future where large AI models run on the device instead of the cloud. It ships October 16.
Royal Navy Sailor Charged With Spying for Foreign Power Under National Security Act
Teddy Young, a 24-year-old Royal Navy serviceman working in naval intelligence, has been charged under the UK's National Security Act with obtaining protected information and preparing to pass it to a foreign power. He is due in court on Thursday.
McDonald's Hit With US Class Action Alleging AI-Powered Menu Price-Fixing
McDonald's has been sued in a proposed nationwide class action in Chicago federal court, accused of using an AI-powered pricing engine fed with nonpublic franchise data to illegally coordinate menu prices across its nearly 14,000 US restaurants.
Tear Gas in Pristina: Police Clash with Protesters Demanding Curbs on Hague War Crimes Court
Kosovo police fired tear gas and used water cannon against protesters outside parliament on Monday as lawmakers advanced a bill to limit the powers of the Hague-based war crimes court that sentenced former president Hashim Thaci to 25 years in prison.
US Protests Live Updates: Latest Demonstrations
Live updates on US demonstrations in October 2026: Springsteen's Power to the People festival, the nationwide Corporate Accountability Week of Action, anti-Trump rally protests in Oklahoma, and the No Kings: Vote Early mobilization planned for October 17.
Quebec Votes Today as Separatists Poised to Oust the CAQ in an Election Dominated by Trump
Quebec goes to the polls on Monday with the separatist Parti Québécois leading the polls and poised to defeat the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec after eight years in power. Strikingly, the campaign has been dominated less by independence than by Donald Trump's tariffs, which have hit the province's export economy hard.
U.S. Natural Gas Output Hits All-Time Record in July 2026 as Permian Basin Pumps 137 Billion Cubic Feet a Day
U.S. gross natural gas withdrawals averaged a record 137 billion cubic feet per day in July, the EIA said — the first new monthly high of 2026, powered by the Permian Basin and new pipeline capacity moving gas to Gulf Coast LNG terminals.
Drone Startup Backed by Trump's Sons Aims to Bring Ukrainian Military Tech to the US
Florida-based drone startup Powerus, set to go public via a merger with a Trump-brothers-linked Nasdaq firm, is negotiating with Ukrainian defence companies to manufacture their battlefield-proven drone technology in the United States for the Pentagon.