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Officials expect death toll to rise as flood waters inundate Kathmandu after highest rainfall since 1970Flooding and landslides caused by continuous rainfall have killed at least 101 people in Nepal while 64 people are missing, officials have said. Rain began pouring down on Friday night and continued into Saturday, with low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, inundated by surging floodwaters.“The death toll has reached...

Noisy miners, butcherbirds and masked lapwings will also go on the offensive to protect their eggs and youngFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s infamous magpies have started to attack – but they’re not the only birds you might fall victim to this swooping season.Lesser known suspects including noisy miners, butcherbirds and...

Ex-president speaks in Prairie du Chien flanked by anti-immigrant posters and lobs insults at Harris and BidenDonald Trump spoke on Saturday in the battleground state of Wisconsin, escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric and taking his personal insults against Kamala Harris up a notch.Trump’s speech in the small community of Prairie du Chien, where a Venezuelan in the US illegally was detained in September for allegedly...

After earlier speech in Monroeville, Republican vice-presidential candidate vows to ‘turn Pennsylvania red’ in Newton. This blog is now closed.Tim Walz paid a visit to Ann Arbor to watch a football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota.The Democratic vice-presidential nominee was greeted at the airport by University of Michigan students, who had arrived in a bus donning a banner...

Rescue services say they saved 27 of the 84 people aboard the vessel believed to have come from MauritaniaNine people are confirmed drowned and at least 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Spain’s Canary Islands overnight, rescue services said on Saturday, the latest in a series of such disasters off the west coast of Africa.Sea rescue teams said in a...

Flooding and landslides strike southern Appalachians after hurricane pummeled region and wreaked havocAt least 64 people have been confirmed dead and almost 3.5 million were without power on Saturday, after strong winds and torrential rain from Hurricane Helene wreaked unprecedented havoc across large swathes of the south-eastern United States.Historic flooding continued over parts of the southern Appalachians on Saturday, as first responders worked to...

Residents of Lebanon’s capital flee their homes and seek shelter as the death toll from Israel’s airstrikes risesGunshots fired into the air, women wailing in the streets, the ever-present buzz of drones and the distant thud of Israeli airstrikes: this was the sound of mourning in Beirut on Saturday. Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was dead, killed in an Israeli airstrike...

British government says it has been securing extra flights as it asks UK nationals to register their presenceThe British government has been securing extra flights for UK nationals to make their way out of Lebanon, as ministers continued to urge citizens still in the country to “leave now”.Official advice has been warning British nationals to leave the country for months. But with the escalation...

Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear postureRussia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir...

Residents from Michoacán to Oaxaca evacuate after storm ravages Pacific coastline, bringing floods and landslides Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides that left 22 people reported dead.In Guerrero, the worst-hit state and one of Mexico’s poorest, 18 people were killed, according...

Israel’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon has far-reaching implications for Tehran and WashingtonWhen Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, told reporters in New York on Friday that the coming days will determine the future path of the Middle East, he could not have been more prescient, even if at the time he was hoping that Hezbollah and Israel could be persuaded to...

Former prime minister’s claims about wanting to seize Covid vaccines being held in the EU ‘may have been a joke’Senior Tories have cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that he seriously considered invading the Netherlands to seize vaccines during the pandemic, saying the story had obviously been overblown and reheated to boost sales of his memoirs.The former prime minister says in his new book,...

Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg DornauMidway through Nikolai’s shift sorting onions alongside other political prisoners in a warehouse in western Belarus, a tall and bald foreigner entered the building.“He arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly,” Nikolai*, recalled in an interview...

Police hunting for suspects in attacks that took place in same neighbourhood in Eastern Cape provinceSeventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two mass shootings that took place close to each other in a rural town in South Africa, police said.A search was under way for the suspects, the national police spokesperson, Brig Athlenda Mathe, said in a statement on Saturday. One...

Embattled Republican lieutenant governor was expected to return to the campaign trail on SaturdayNorth Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Republican Mark Robinson, received burns on Friday night while attending a truck show as he was campaigning for governor, his campaign said.Robinson was making an appearance at the Mayberry truck show in Mount Airy when he was injured, campaign spokesperson Mike Lonergan said in a statement. Continue...

Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. As the election enters its final weeks, Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the...

Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public event next month.New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed...

While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningfulKamala Harris has stretched her lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential election race, the latest polling averages show, even while the two candidates appear to be running neck-and-neck in most battleground states.The Guardian’s newest poll tracker, based on a range of surveys conducted across...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Nasrallah ‘will no longer be able to terrorize the world’Numerous reports have said that Hezbollah’s long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target of Israel’s strikes on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday evening. There has been no official confirmation of whether Nasrallah was killed in the strikes or not.The Israeli Defense Forces said the...

IDF says southern front commander Ali Karki also killed and other Hezbollah commanders in Beirut underground headquartersMiddle East crisis – latest news updatesThe Israeli military has said it has killed Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a series of strikes on a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted Hezbollah’s underground headquarters.The announcement by the IDF on Saturday...

Incident took place in German’s hometown of StarnbergLehmann also settles unpaid Munich airport parking feesThe former Arsenal and Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been fined €135,000 (£113,000) by a court in his hometown of Starnberg for damaging his neighbour’s garage with a chainsaw.Lehmann, who was accused by the public prosecutor of sawing off a roof beam in the garage, was initially fined €420,000 (£351,000)...

Early years experts warn of lack of staff, playgrounds and toiletsPrimary schools may not have enough space, specialist facilities or staff to deliver the 100,000 new nursery places in England that the government has promised, early childhood experts have warned.Labour is under intense pressure to create enough places to fulfil its promise of 30 hours of free childcare a week for eligible parents of...

Ukraine’s interior minister said one person killed in initial attack before the site was hit again during the evacuation A civilian was killed in a drone attack in the city of Shebekino in Russia’s Belgorod oblast on Saturday, the regional governor said.Images and video posted on Telegram by regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov showed smoke billowing out of a window on the top floor of...

‘I believed things he told me that I now understand to be … lies,’ Dave Hancock says in new Rittenhouse documentaryA former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a Chicago pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in...