Category: World
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The death toll from Wednesday’s glacier collapse passed 500 on Friday, and the debris that caused the flood has now dammed the river, forming a lake that has begun to overflow. Search work near the border has been paused.
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2 August 2026 sat in compliance calendars for two years as the day the EU AI Act would properly bite. A late amendment split the date in two: transparency rules arrived on schedule, the high-risk regime slipped over a year.
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Eight Israeli strikes cratered the runway at Abu al-Duhur in Idlib province. Israel said it was stopping a Turkish deployment. The United States called it an unnecessary escalation, and is still pressing both sides to step back.
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European football’s governing body is preparing a criminal complaint in Switzerland against Gianni Infantino over the abandoned plan to sell a stake in the World Cup. The evidence is being gathered through American courts.
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Meta has settled the states’ landmark case over teen social media addiction. Coverage put the figure at $16.7 billion, $17 billion and $18 billion — all in the same week. Here is what was actually agreed, and what changes on Facebook and Instagram.
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Five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his birthright citizenship order 6-3, President Trump signed a new one that cites the ruling itself. It has attracted remarkably little attention.
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A glacier collapse sent water, mud and debris down the Lhende Khola valley on Wednesday morning, burying villages on both sides of the Nepal–Tibet border. It is the region’s deadliest disaster since the 2015 earthquake.
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A liquidation begun in the British Virgin Islands in 2011 has worked its way to a family home in Hampstead. An English judge has rejected the argument that Islamic custom made the house the wife’s property.
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The Norwegian royal family arrives at a change of monarch after several punishing years: a criminal trial, a lung transplant, repeated hospital admissions and a running argument about where a family ends and an institution begins.
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There is no gap between one Norwegian monarch and the next. The throne passed the moment King Harald died. What follows is an oath, a name, a motto and a long period of mourning.