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Rescuers in Nepal have recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu, as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 129 with many still missing. The weather in…

More than 100 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over Russia, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since the start of the war. Russia’s Ministry of Defence…

A man has been arrested after allegedly setting two fires in the western German city of Essen that left 30 people injured, and driving a van into two shops, authorities have said. Emergency services were alerted to two fires in…

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation and Ukraine. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was “an essential condition to achieving the goals we set”. Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that one of its founding members, who has been linked by Israel to attacks…

Dozens of people have died after Hurricane Helene raced across a wide area of the south-eastern US, with more than three million customers being left without power. Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a category four hurricane…

SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home – but not until next year. The capsule rocketed towards orbit to fetch the test…

Russia’s top diplomat has warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power” in a speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Sergei Lavrov’s address was packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in…

Hundreds of people have marched in Paris in support of the right to abortion for women across the world. The demonstration comes six months after France became the first country to guarantee in its constitution a woman’s right to voluntarily…

Pope Francis has promised to “offer all the help we can” to victims of clergy sexual abuse after people in Belgium told him first-hand of the trauma that shattered their lives and left many in poverty and mental misery. Francis’s…