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BBC Verify traces the path of the destructive Nepal-Tibet flash flood using verified video.

China faces a dilemma in the six-month war between Iran and the United States, wanting the conflict to drag on and drain American military and government resources, yet wary of…

Japan’s rush to field interceptor drones marks a sharp break with its traditionally slow-moving defense procurement system as it prepares for a battlefield increasingly dominated by cheap, expendable unmanned weapons.…

In August 2026, a fatal traffic accident from the previous year became one of the biggest trending topics on Vietnamese social media. Nguyen Sy Cuong, a former National Assembly deputy…

More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres down the Bhote Koshi River…

We are biased. Given our faith in the rapidly rising utility of AI that can only be done on a completely new type of hardware, we wrote in January about…

One woman says her father, mother, sister and sister's children were carried away before her eyes.

At least 160 people have been killed along the Nepal-Tibet border as rescuers struggle to reach the disaster zone.

Amidst the tragifarce of President Donald Trump’s apparently off-the-top-of-his-head war on Iran may lie a silver lining for the 2028 presidential election — a silver lining that comes with two…

There is a harsh paradox in today’s sustainability debate. The tools for understanding environmental risk are becoming more sophisticated: financed emissions, climate-risk models, taxonomies, transition plans and carbon pricing are…