A highly unusual trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on Nato member states, US media reported Wednesday, after President Donald Trump sought to downplay the visit.

The US Army announced Wednesday it has awarded a combined $2.2 billion to vendors to build and operate small nuclear reactors at five military bases in the United States.

Rescue teams waded through mud yesterday searching for more than 1,400 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border, as the death toll rose sharply to at least 392, with entire villages swept away.

A large barrier lake has formed in Nepal, with Chinese authorities warning that the lake is already overflowing and could breach as more water flows into it over the coming days.

An “unknown projectile” struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire that has since been put out, a British maritime agency said early yesterday.

A glacial collapse caused seismic activity and “catastrophic” downstream impacts in Nepal and Tibet, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said yesterday.

Trump signed an order in the White House, telling reporters the change was "effective immediately"

MAG, which operates the Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said the data of 8.7 million customers had been compromised

China’s Ministry of Water Resources estimated the lake’s volume at about 2 mn cubic metres as of this morning

Prime Minister Balendra Shah visited some of the hardest-hit areas today

The surge then moved downstream through the Bhotekoshi into the Trishuli river and gradually spread to downstream areas.

When asked for a breakdown of nationalities of the missing foreigners, Lin said specific information was still under further verification.

"Petrol production is insufficient, and because of the US naval blockade, we cannot import it," the official IRNA news agency quoted Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah as saying on Wednesday.

Flash floods and landslides on Wednesday killed at least 165 people and more than 1,300 remain missing on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Satellite imagery suggests a section of glacier about 2,000 feet wide broke off at an altitude of around 17,000 feet, falling nearly 4,000 feet to the valley below, said geologist Daniel Shugar

Flash floods and landslides have left homes, roads and bridges submerged or destroyed along the Nepal-Tibet border.

US Geological Survey said an earthquake with magnitude initially reported as 4.4 was in fact seismic energy generated by the collapse of glacial rock and ice, followed by debris flow.

Here is a list of the nationalities of tourists who have been determined to be missing

Visible commodity vessel transits at Hormuz totalled 10 on Wednesday, up slightly from eight on Tuesday, data from Kpler showed. This remained below a 10-day moving average of about 15 vessels.

"It is with profound sorrow that the passing of Yayoi Kusama at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97," the statement said.