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29/08/2026 – 07:23🎥 ‘We are going to see more events like this’ The scale of Nepal’s disaster cannot yet be fully measured. Entire communities remain difficult to reach, tens of thousands of people have been affected, and official assessments are only beginning. But the central challenge is already clear: this cannot be treated solely as an immediate humanitarian emergency as signs suggest that the speed and destructive force of this extreme natural event could become more frequent.FRANCE 24’s William Hilderbrandt welcomes David Fisher, Head of Delegation, Nepal International Federation of Red Cross who tells us more. 29/08/2026 – 07:17Death toll…

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future, in a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian.While he added that any union would necessarily be “a long process” and based on mutual agreement, Brown’s comments are notable both because of his vehement opposition to Scottish independence, but also because of his involvement in government in efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland.He was Tony Blair’s chancellor when the Good Friday peace agreement was signed in 1998. In 2010, he was prime minister when justice and policing powers were…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Embattled iron ore trader Radiant World is threatening legal action against Glencore, alleging that its larger rival is responsible for over $1.4bn of losses as part of a wider dispute between the two groups.Singapore-based Radiant, which grew rapidly from relative obscurity to become one of the largest iron ore traders in the world, has been battling a liquidity squeeze in recent weeks. Banks and trading firms including Glencore cut the group off over alleged inconsistencies in the documentation underpinning its trades. Japanese lender…

Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. To use the feature, you first need to create an account with Brave, where you can provide your real email address. Then, once logged into the browser, you’ll see a pop-up appear when clicking an email field on a website, offering the option to use an alias instead. (If the pop-up doesn’t appear, just right-click on the field…

As the “vulnpocalypse” reshapes the bug bounty industry, one class of researcher may face the greatest pressure: independent hunters who rely on midtier vulnerabilities — those worth roughly $10,000 to $50,000 — to make a living.It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have led to a mass of bug reports and an increase in vulnerability discovery. It is also no secret that the platforms and companies that run much of the bug bounty industry have faced increased triage and payout times.Multiple bug bounty operators interviewed by Dark Reading report dramatic increases in submission volume over the past year.…

In brief Fed Chair Kevin Warsh dedicated a full section of his Jackson Hole keynote to artificial intelligence, calling the current moment a “hinge point in history.” Warsh said annualized sales at the two leading AI labs now top $100 billion, an increase of more than 500% from a year earlier, and confirmed the Fed now treats AI as “potentially a new factor of production.” Warsh flagged that he’s watching AI’s “second derivative”—whether capital-spending growth is still accelerating. Kevin Warsh’s first Jackson Hole keynote as Federal Reserve chair made headlines mostly for what he refused to say about interest rates.…

A major thermal power plant, located in coastal Bangladesh, has been operating without regular air-quality testing, allegedly causing suffering among nearby residents.A recent study also found a significant decline in air and water quality around the coal-fired thermal power plant.Meanwhile, the government recently exempted the power plant authority from conducting air-quality tests, as officials say they believe such plants do not generate significant air pollution.In addition, the plant’s chimney is shorter than the height approved in the initial Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).See All Key Ideas Riaz Panchayet used to farm papaya, cucumber, okra and bananas on his land…

Simon Jenkins is right that traffic rules can feel bureaucratic, but using Hans Monderman’s “shared space” to justify running red lights misses the entire point of Monderman’s philosophy (I’ll admit it: I’ve cycled through red lights. But Britain’s traffic laws are to blame, not me, 21 August).Monderman didn’t champion anarchy so individuals could cherrypick which laws to follow; he suggested infrastructure be removed precisely to force collective cooperation, eye contact and mutual caution.The moment cyclists ignore that negotiation process while vulnerable pedestrians are left unprotected, the delicate psychological balance collapses. Freedom without universal accountability isn’t shared space. It is just…

Claim: Director Ron Howard authored a letter starting, “I’m a liberal, but that doesn’t mean what a lot of you apparently think it does.” Rating: In summer 2026, an old claim that director Ron Howard wrote an open letter about what it supposedly means to be a liberal resurfaced. The letter, which is around 1,300 words, began as follows: I’m a liberal, but that doesn’t mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let’s break it down, shall we? Because quite frankly, I’m getting a little tired of being told what I believe and what I stand for.…

To most of the world, he was and will always be the “Butcher of Bosnia”, a grim epithet but one that still fails to fully convey the evil and horror inflicted on its people by Gen Ratko Mladić, who died in prison on Thursday.As commander of the Bosnian Serb forces, Mladić was responsible for the killing of an estimated 100,000 men, women and children during the savage breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He was most notoriously the architect of ethnic cleansing and the genocide at Srebrenica in which at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered.Today, 31…