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Nepal faces the reconstruction of about 20,000 homes as rescuers continue searching for workers believed to be trapped in hydropower tunnels after a devastating glacier-related flood near the border with China. Dharma Raj Upreti, chief of Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, said preliminary assessments showed that 7,500 houses had been completely destroyed, either swept away or buried beneath mud and debris. Many of the homes left standing are considered unsafe or uninhabitable. Officials are now identifying locations where communities can be rebuilt away from areas exposed to the same risks. “There is no point in rebuilding the…

Dumfries and Galloway Council has turned to drones, lasers and bio-acoustic devices in an effort to stop gulls nesting on public buildings and attacking people in urban areas. The non-lethal measures were deployed across Nithsdale before the 2026 breeding season, as the authority faced tighter requirements to prove it had tried other options before seeking permission to remove eggs or nests. Environmental health teams used a green laser twice a day at 11 council-owned properties, including sites in Dumfries, Georgetown, Annan and Stranraer. The beam is intended to appear to the birds as a physical danger, encouraging them to abandon…

The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on new postal requirements that could restrict how mail-in ballots are distributed in November’s midterm elections. The request comes as a federal judge in Boston considers whether to extend an order preventing the United States Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of the plan. The legal dispute has intensified just as states begin preparing to send absentee ballots to voters. Judge Indira Talwani imposed a 14-day temporary restraining order last week after voting rights groups and Democratic-led states challenged the Postal Service’s revised rules. The…

Wall Street surged on Thursday after Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller signalled he could support leaving interest rates unchanged this month if forthcoming data confirms that inflation is easing. The remarks helped reverse a recent rise in expectations of a rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s September 15-16 meeting, sending all three major US stock indexes more than 1% higher by the close. The S&P 500 gained 1.07%, or 81.67 points, to finish at 7,748.27. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.18%, adding 627.37 points to reach 53,689.32, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.40% to 26,584.21. Mr Waller said…

Kroy Biermann Jr, the 15-year-old son of reality television star Kim Zolciak and former NFL player Kroy Biermann, has been indicted on seven felony charges in Georgia after a female classmate accused him of sexual assault. A Fulton County grand jury returned the indictment on Thursday, September 3, in connection with an alleged incident at a Life Time Fitness centre in Alpharetta on April 23. Biermann Jr faces charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child under 16 and false imprisonment. Police allege that the teenager led the girl…

Coder’s registry infrastructure was compromised by an unidentified attacker who used unauthorised servers to distribute malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. The incident affected registry.coder.com, the package-hosting service used by developers to obtain components for workspace templates. Coder said some requests were routed by Cloudflare to the attacker’s servers rather than its legitimate infrastructure. The unauthorised modules were available between 07:35 UTC and 21:45 UTC on Monday, August 31. They were modified versions of Terraform modules, which are used to create and configure cloud and other computing infrastructure. Coder said the malicious code operated as an information stealer when the…

Severe thunderstorms swept across south-eastern Wisconsin on Thursday, bringing flooding, fallen trees and widespread power outages to communities around Milwaukee. More than 20,000 We Energies customers were without electricity during the morning storms, with outages reported across Milwaukee, West Allis, Germantown, Hubertus, Oconomowoc, Richfield and Sussex. The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northern Milwaukee County, south-western Ozaukee County, north-eastern Waukesha County and south-eastern Washington County. The warning was in force until 8.45am local time. Forecasters said the storms were capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and torrential rain. An isolated tornado was also considered possible…

Australian underdog Dane Sweeny produced one of the standout moments of his US Open meeting with 13th seed Lorenzo Musetti, forcing the Italian into a desperate scramble before winning an absorbing point. The rally came during their second-round contest at Flushing Meadows, where Sweeny was facing his first career meeting with the highly ranked Musetti. Sweeny arrived in New York as a wildcard and had already made an impression on his Grand Slam main-draw debut by defeating France’s Corentin Moutet in the opening round. He recovered from 5-2 down in the first set before progressing after Moutet retired while trailing…

A woman in her seventies has been told she must repay $35,000 after the US Social Security Administration said it had overpaid her for four years — despite her insisting she did nothing wrong. The case highlights the financial shock faced by beneficiaries who receive a demand for repayment after errors in the administration of retirement or disability benefits. The woman, who has not been named, said she was informed in August that she had 30 days to repay the sum or face a major reduction in her monthly payments. Her benefit had already been cut by about $600 in…

A Moroccan social media influencer convicted of helping to rob Romanian fashion designer Catalin Botezatu of a £170,000 Richard Mille watch in Mayfair is facing a prison sentence. Abdel El Habchi, 30, and Ali Eldahouzze, 22, were found guilty of robbery by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. Younes Djoudi, 34, had admitted the offence before the trial. The three men targeted Mr Botezatu shortly before midnight on 28 January after he left the Amazonico restaurant in Berkeley Square. He had been standing outside with a friend and smoking a cigar when the group approached. The court heard that Eldahouzze…