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Search for missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kill 165

Search for missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kill 165

Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165 and swept away entire villages.

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Sumo moves to beat Japan summer heat as temperatures rise

Sumo moves to beat Japan summer heat as temperatures rise

Sumo chiefs are planning measures to beat Japan's increasingly punishing summer heat, including avoiding venues that don't have air conditioning and lightening the load on weary wrestlers.

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Qantas says profits slump as fuel costs surge

Qantas says profits slump as fuel costs surge

Australian airline Qantas said Thursday it expects fuel costs to stay high, after the Middle East war pushed up prices and led to a slump in annual net profits.

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'Be more honest': Markets crave clarity from cryptic Fed chair

'Be more honest': Markets crave clarity from cryptic Fed chair

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will have to soothe investors frazzled by his cryptic communication style in a key speech on Friday, analysts say, or risk having his leadership undercut by other policymakers filling the void.

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Lofty bond yields, Bessent's intervention pose challenge to Fed's Warsh

Lofty bond yields, Bessent's intervention pose challenge to Fed's Warsh

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's controversial efforts to lower Treasury yields have potentially put him at odds with Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, complicating the latter's communications challenge this week.

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Climate change leaves its mark on America's largest reservoir

Climate change leaves its mark on America's largest reservoir

From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter of a century of drought.

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The foreigners missing in Nepal's flash floods

The foreigners missing in Nepal's flash floods

Hundreds of foreign nationals are missing in Nepal after devastating flash floods on Wednesday killed at least 160 people.

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Search for missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kills at least 160

Search for missing after Nepal-Tibet floods kills at least 160

Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 160 and swept away entire villages.

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Meta, US states agree $18 bn settlement in landmark teen safety case

Meta, US states agree $18 bn settlement in landmark teen safety case

Meta agreed to pay a coalition of US states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing on Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California.

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Police probe 'assault allegations' after Carse's nightclub incident

Police probe 'assault allegations' after Carse's nightclub incident

Derbyshire Police are looking into "allegations of assault" following the incident that saw England fast bowler Brydon Carse handcuffed outside a nightclub over the weekend.

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