Category: World
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Agencies say 17,000 children are affected by the 26 August flash floods in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading, with around 332 dead. That figure and the one we published yesterday are both current — here is why they differ.
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Thirteen of more than fifty people taken at Kenscoff were released. The figures underneath the incident — 1.47 million displaced, thirty documented cases of gender-based violence a day — are the story.
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MSF screened 21,000 children in Baidoa and found acute malnutrition around 50 per cent among the displaced. The number that matters more is the readmission rate: over 60 per cent.
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MSF admitted 1,296 severely malnourished children with complications at one hospital in northern Yemen in six months, against 798 a year earlier. The rise is sharper than the lean season alone explains.
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On 2 August, California’s AI Transparency Act and the EU AI Act’s transparency rules took effect on the same day. Both demand a machine-readable answer to one question: did a machine make this? A month on, here is what actually changed.
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The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 289.7 million barrels, its lowest since November 1982. The stockpile is not empty — but the reserve’s usefulness is measured in barrels per day, not barrels, and that number has fallen too.
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An Al Jazeera investigation found 17 companies linked to Israeli settlements hold 125 UK public-sector contracts worth £2.129bn. The money is not going to settlements. The legal question is narrower, and harder.
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Guinea-Bissau voted on a new constitution that would let the president hire and fire the prime minister and dissolve parliament. Turnout passed 55 per cent; the main opposition party boycotted. Results are due Tuesday.
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Icelanders voted 52.8 per cent to 47.2 per cent against reopening EU membership talks, on a turnout of 82.5 per cent. The government framed it as a security question. Voters answered a fishing question.
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The US ambassador to Belgium posted an AI-generated image mocking the health minister over alcohol warning labels. Brussels summoned him — for the second time this year. The joke got the coverage; the question of what a summons is actually for did not.