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South Asia · Breaking
A sudden wall of water tore through Rasuwa and Dhading before dawn. Officials say 384 people are unaccounted for, including 291 foreigners. The death count is expected to rise.
KATHMANDU — A flash flood tore through two central Nepal districts on the Tibetan border before dawn Wednesday, killing at least nine people and leaving 384 missing, Nepali officials told reporters. Among the missing, they said, were 291 foreigners, including at least 105 Indian nationals.
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Aftermath
The cameras left. The ash did not. Survivors are still sick, and the recovery is being measured in clinic visits.
The West
A city that was supposed to be a laboratory of desert living is improvising with frozen water. The heat is not a metaphor.
Public health
If it works in the field, the cold chain — that invisible, expensive, breakable thing — gets a little shorter. One trial is not a rollout.
The Gulf
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told counterparts the United States is not, “for the time being,” planning new strikes. A projectile knocked out a tanker’s engine room. No one claimed it.
The Ballot
Power bills, water, and a humming warehouse at the edge of town are turning into precinct politics. The cloud has a zoning problem.
Andes
More than 300 dead, thousands of homes gone. For families displaced by conflict, the aftershock is a second erasure.
Platforms
Forty-seven states, D.C., and U.S. territories settled claims that the company designed its apps to addict children. Florida called the money peanuts. Meta denied wrongdoing and the stock went up.
North America
Ottawa answered a weekend of new U.S. duties with a list. Trade wars are easy to start and expensive to itemize.
From the Editor
A note on the first day. We will get things wrong. We will correct them in public. We will not perform certainty we do not have.
Daily
A Himalayan flood, a Silicon Valley check, a country-music funeral, a strait that is “clear,” and a bag of ice in Phoenix. Here is the board.
Appreciation
She died Tuesday at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer, her team said. The songs will outlast the hair, which is saying something.
Opinion
From the Editor
A note on the first day. We will get things wrong. We will correct them in public. We will not perform certainty we do not have.
Culture
Europe
Two hundred and ten sculptures of the composer vanished as Bayreuth marked 270 years since his birth. In 2024 it was 115. This is no longer a prank. It is a collection.
Appreciation
She died Tuesday at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer, her team said. The songs will outlast the hair, which is saying something.
The wire
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