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Nepal's hesitance to accept foreign help for flood relief under scrutiny
A group of the country's private sector power producers says Nepali authorities lost crucial time in rescuing hundreds of people trapped in hydropower tunnels
U.S., Venezuela strike oil deal. And, the staggering hidden toll of U.S. heat deaths
The U.S. and Venezuela have entered into an oil deal. And, NPR spent two years tracking heat-related deaths and found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat more than the official counts show.
Russia's jet-powered drones bring empty Kyiv supermarket shelves and rattle Ukrainians
Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses.
Attacks flare between U.S., Iran after month-long pause
U.S. threats erupt into attacks in the Strait of Hormuz; Iran retaliates against U.S. targets in the UAE and Jordan in the first exchange of fire since July 29
Singapore is scrambling to stabilize birthrates. Experts say there are lessons for the U.S.
Singapore has unveiled a national initiative built entirely around its collapsing birthrate. Some demographers say the plan includes policy ideas that could help American parents.
Hit shows from Edinburgh's Fringe festival are coming to America. Here are our top picks
The annual "anything goes" performing arts festival featured more than 4,200 performances this year. These are the ones we're still talking about.
The U.S. Venezuela oil deal won't lower your gas prices. Here's what you need to know
The Trump administration announced a deal Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves, with the U.S. taking a majority stake. Energy experts say there are many reasons to be skeptical.
Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have
A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.
NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
Morning news brief
Trump says U.S. struck a deal to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, U.S. and Iran resume exchanging strikes, funding at the top of the agenda as House reconvenes.

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Once a village, now barren land - BBC in the valley devastated by floods
The BBC reports from Sano Barkhu, a village overlooking the town of Syfrubesi, which was destroyed by the Nepal flooding.
Early release scheme could see dangerous criminals released, Conservatives warn
The warning comes after the prime minister said some prisoners serving indefinite sentences could be freed to increase prison capacity.
Dolly Parton laid to rest alongside husband in Nashville
A private family funeral is held for the singer who died on Tuesday at the age of 80.
US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks
The attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz - the first known US strike since late July - has killed two people and injured two others.
South African airline defends low-altitude aerial stunt over packed stadium
Airlink says the manoeuvre with two planes in close formation involved careful and precise planning.
The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim
For decades, swimming ability has been lower in the black community. Our writer asks why.
The trial of Lindsay Clancy has gripped the US for weeks - here's what the jury must consider
Jurors have five options before them as they decide the fate of the former nurse charged with killing her three children.
Djokovic in tears during US Open first-round exit
An emotional Novak Djokovic suffers a US Open first-round defeat which provides further evidence that age is catching up with the 39-year-old great.
Patel to be replaced by Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary
Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures.
One dead and more than a dozen missing after 'terrifying' flash flood hits Grand Canyon
"It was a beautiful day - and then people were screaming," one hiker tells the BBC, as 15 people are missing.

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Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI
Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit
The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
The real mistake here was probably sending someone so young to do the job
Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?

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Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."