Topic: Natural Disasters — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-27 05:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: 'We just want them home': Daughters of couple missing after Tibet pilgrimage
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[2026-08-27 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 04:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NUWAKOT, Nepal — A massive flood and landslide disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 160 people on Wednesday and left several hundred missing, many of them foreign tourists.
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[2026-08-27 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Drones such as Liberaware's lightweight IBIS2 supported the rescue and recovery efforts that followed the Kumamoto earthquake in late July. (Source photos by Liberaware and Max Kogyo)
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[2026-08-27 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Officials extinguish a fire of a Humanoid robot after hitting the barrier at the end of the 100 meter final race during the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
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[2026-08-27 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — A fire broke out in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing 14 infants, Pakistani authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze.
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[2026-08-27 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CEBU CITY — Only four of 65 property developers have submitted the flood-mitigation plans and detention pond details required by the city government, leaving 61 others yet to comply with the directive.
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[2026-08-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Fire haze threatens health of millions in IndonesiaPEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
The vast Southeast Asian archipelago has, for weeks, battled wildfires that have led to school closures and thousands of people requiring medical treatment, with smoke also reaching neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
Indonesia’s health ministry said 3.4 million people living in seven provinces on Borneo and Sumatra were at risk of respiratory infections due to exposure.
In Pekanbaru, the capital of Sumatra’s Riau province, thick smog forced the government to shutter dozens of schools as it urged residents to stay indoors.
“The smog gets thicker at night, making Pekanbaru almost like a dead city. A lot of people don’t dare go out. And if they do, they wear masks,” Abdullah, a 38-year-old entrepreneur, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“My eyes sting so badly. When I go outside, it really feels like breathing in the smoke from freshly burned trash,” added the Pekanbaru resident who, like many Indonesians, has one name.
In Jambi, also on Sumatra, 31-year-old homemaker Farida said the haze had already affected her family’s health.
“My four-year-old child and I have begun coughing so much, especially when we stay outdoors too long,” she told AFP. “I have trouble breathing.” The Jambi local government has ordered homeschooling for children in kindergarten and elementary school for the rest of the week.
The health ministry said it had distributed more than 260,000 face masks to residents of the hardest-hit areas.
On Tuesday, President Prabowo Subianto said the government has deployed dozens of helicopters, aircraft, water pumps, and thousands of personnel to battle the blazes.
“Now I think it has begun to be brought under control, mitigated. In several places, I believe, and I hope that within the next one to two weeks everything can be resolved,” Prabowo said.
Most wildfires are blamed on slash-and-burn practices to clear land for farming.
Police said over the weekend they had arrested 72 people on suspicion of starting fires.
Fires between January and July burned more than 200,000 hectares of land — an area three times the size of the capital Jakarta, the government said last week.
That is already larger than during previous El Niño seasons in 2019 and 2023.
The El Niño weather pattern triggers worldwide changes in winds, atmospheric pressure, and rainfall.
Muslims in Indonesia, celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad on Tuesday, prayed for rain.
Malaysia said it stood ready to help put out fires.
Poor air quality in Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo, which it shares with Indonesia and Brunei, led to nearly 600 schools being closed last week.
At one point on Wednesday morning, tracker IQ Air ranked the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, the second-most polluted city globally. AFPSnippet: PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
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[2026-08-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
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[2026-08-27 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE magnitude 7.8 Sarangani earthquake of June 8 reminded the country of a figure we have all learned to quote: roughly 98 percent of catastrophe losses in the Philippines are uninsured. Average annual disaster losses run in the order of $3.5 billion. Nonlife insurance penetration remains below 1 percent of gross domestic product.
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[2026-08-27 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At least 31 people were confirmed dead, and hundreds of tourists and travelers remained missing after a catastrophic flash flood tore through Nepal's border region with Tibet.
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[2026-08-26 23:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-08-26 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan — It was 6:30am on Wednesday when Arif Rana, 46, woke to a phone call. He had been asleep on the lawn outside the maternity unit of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad’s largest public-sector hospital.
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[2026-08-26 23:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: SpongeBob SquarePants, the star of the hit Nickelodeon show, is at the heart of a political storm playing out online in Egypt, giving rise to suspicions about the motives of Facebook groups that have recreated him and his underwater city as a platform for political satire.
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[2026-08-26 23:12 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenBarcelona, SpainA wildfire in the Collserola mountain range sends smoke over the Nou Barris district, forcing some residents to evacuatePhotograph: Jordi Boixareu/Zuma Press/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenTrishuli Bazar, NepalHouses in the Nuwakot district are partly submerged in mud after flash floods along a riversidePhotograph: Prabin Ranabhat/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenPomas, FranceA tornado damaged about 300 homes in the south-western Occitania regionPhotograph: Idriss Bigou-Gilles/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenNew York, USThe Empire State Building was lit up in pink at
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[2026-08-26 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more info in last 2 paras)
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[2026-08-26 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-26 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Video shows the moment a deadly flash flood hit the Nepal-Tibet border.
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[2026-08-26 22:09 UTC+10:00] [UK news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Cleveland police not ruling out links to organised crime, as fire comes amid force’s investigation into fatal A66 crash
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[2026-08-26 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief?
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[2026-08-26 21:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A wall of mud and rock appeared to collapse into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side that killed at least nine people and left hundreds of tourists missing.
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[2026-08-26 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: It was just after dawn on Wednesday morning at a maternity ward in the Pakistani capital when a horrific blaze erupted.
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[2026-08-26 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A wall of mud and rock appeared to collapse into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side that has killed 22 people and left hundreds of tourists missing.
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[2026-08-26 21:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Hundreds of travellers are missing, including at least 291 foreign tourists, after a flash flood swept away buildings on the Nepal-Tibet border.
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[2026-08-26 21:36 UTC+10:00] [Nepal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘Major casualties’ feared after powerful floods in Himalayan border area sweep away houses, roads and bridges and leave hundreds missing
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[2026-08-26 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Nearly 300 foreign nationals have been reported missing after flash floods in Nepal. (AP: Niranjan Shrestha)
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[2026-08-26 21:29 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Eight South Korean workers were missing and 10 others were stranded in Nepal after sudden flooding struck the Rasuwa region on Wednesday morning, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry.
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[2026-08-26 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS President Lee's order in last 2 paras)
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[2026-08-26 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- Eight South Koreans were unaccounted for and 10 others were stranded following a massive flood in Nepal, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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[2026-08-26 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Hundreds were missing after torrential floods in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and Tibet destroyed roads, bridges and power projects on Wednesday.
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[2026-08-26 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-26 20:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped after armed men attacked a once-peaceful community near Haiti’s capital earlier this week, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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[2026-08-26 19:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: At least fourteen newborn babies have been killed after a fire tore through a nursery at a major government hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, according to the city administration and hospital officials.
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[2026-08-26 19:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: At least fourteen newborn babies have been killed after a fire tore through a nursery at a major government hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, according to the city administration and hospital officials.
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[2026-08-26 19:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Nepal sent helicopters to the rescue after a huge flash flood swept away villages, killing at least eight people and damaging roads, bridges and power projects in areas near Tibet, authorities said.
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[2026-08-26 19:45 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: If you ever find yourself buried beneath the rubble of an earthquake’s aftermath or expiring in a remote cave, salvation may not arrive in the form of a dashing rescuer or detection dog, but of a hulking, hissing, spiky-legged cockroach.
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[2026-08-26 19:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The next tropical storm that develops in the Atlantic this hurricane season will be named Dolly, but the timing is pure coincidence and has no connection to Dolly Parton’s death Tuesday.
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[2026-08-26 19:29 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: KATHMANDU – Nepal sent helicopters to the rescue on Wednesday after a massive flash flood swept away villages in the Himalayan nation, killing eight and damaging roads, bridges and power projects in areas near Tibet, authorities said.
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[2026-08-26 17:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Heavy casualties are feared after a massive flash flood in parts of nothern Nepal washed away villages and damaged infrastructure, including a hydropower dam.
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[2026-08-26 17:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: At least three people were killed in drone attacks across Russia on Wednesday as Ukraine struck and set fire to a Wildberries warehouse in the central Tambov region, the second time the facility has been targeted since July.
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[2026-08-26 17:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: At least three people were killed in drone attacks across Russia on Wednesday as Ukraine struck and set fire to a Wildberries warehouse in the central Tambov region, the second time the facility has been targeted since July, as well as an oil refinery further to the east.
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[2026-08-26 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-26 17:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The mother of one of the babies who died, is consoled after the fire
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[2026-08-26 17:05 UTC+10:00] [Pakistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Authorities at biggest state hospital in Islamabad say 15 babies were in the ward when fire broke out
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[2026-08-26 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Fact Check] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-26 16:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Surging artificial-intelligence capabilities and declining attention spans have Chinese producers flooding the zone with short-drama films to see which ones take off.
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[2026-08-26 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Joint cloud seeding efforts offer immediate relief from the haze, but experts warn fire prevention at source is the real battle
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[2026-08-26 16:45 UTC+10:00] [West Kalimantan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Joint cloud seeding efforts offer immediate relief from the haze, but experts warn fire prevention at source is the real battle
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[2026-08-26 16:41 UTC+10:00] [Fires and Firefighters] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: At least 14 newborn babies died on Wednesday in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, after a fire broke out in a nursery in the city’s largest hospital, according to officials.
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[2026-08-26 16:01 UTC+10:00] [Imran Khan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed authorities to conduct an immediate investigation into the fire at the state-run hospital
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