Flash floods kill scores and leave hundreds missing on Nepal-Tibet border

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Saturday, the twenty-ninth of August, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

A wall of water swept through a Himalayan river valley along the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away villages and leaving border officials, port workers and foreign tourists among the missing, according to Nepali authorities. The flash flooding has affected northern Nepal and parts of Tibet across the Himalayan frontier, and search-and-rescue operations are continuing. Casualty figures were still being updated and varied by official tally. One count put the death toll at at least two hundred and seventy and the number of missing at more than eight hundred; another said at least one thousand five hundred people were missing. Officials also said three hundred and forty foreign nationals from India, the United States, Britain, Australia, Malaysia and Ukraine were among the missing. The U S Geological Survey said the disaster followed a glacial collapse. Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia. The British embassy in Kathmandu said it was deeply saddened and urged people in affected areas to take precautions as the emergency response continued.

Meanwhile, in Europe, Norway’s King Harald V died at eighty-nine, the palace said on Friday. He was Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, reigned thirty-five years, spent part of his childhood in exile in the United States during the Nazi occupation, and broke royal tradition by marrying a commoner. His son, Crown Prince Haakon, succeeded him as King Haakon V I I I. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre joined officials and crowds paying tribute outside the Royal Palace in Oslo, and the new king adopted the family motto “all for Norway.” Tributes also arrived from European monarchs and other world leaders. The succession has renewed scrutiny of Crown Princess Mette‑Marit’s past correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen, an association that had already stirred fierce controversy.

In the Americas, President Donald Trump said the United States has reached an agreement with Venezuela that would give it control of more than sixty-five billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves. A U S official said the arrangement would involve a partnership with a private company, and Venezuela's interim president said it would help revive the country's economy. Trump has long pressed for U S access to Venezuelan oil and has urged American oil companies to invest in the South American nation. He said the oil would be obtained at cost.

In U S immigration news, Milo Yiannopoulos, a British right-wing commentator and former Breitbart editor, has been deported from the United States to the United Kingdom. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained him in New Orleans on Thursday, citing expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order. He was accused of overstaying a visa after entering legally in May twenty nineteen.

On Capitol Hill, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has ordered Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, to pay one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars for insider bets on the prediction market Kalshi. The regulator said he exploited material nonpublic information about words President Trump used in speeches. Perez was placed on unpaid leave and later left his post amid accusations over the wagers.

In British politics, James Cleverly has resigned from the shadow cabinet with immediate effect to run for mayor of London. The Conservative M P, a former home and foreign secretary who is shadow minister for housing, communities and local government, announced his intention, and the capital is not due to vote until twenty twenty-eight.

Finally, in defence news, the Royal Navy carried out a three-day operation last week to track four Russian vessels through U K waters. H M S Duncan, H M S St Albans and H M S Severn, supported by a helicopter, used radars to monitor the ships as they travelled from the North Sea through the English Channel.

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