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South Korea — news through its media

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ENERGY & CLIMATE

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Hormuz: Iran strikes Kuwait and the UAE, Oman refuses its toll, Washington cuts contact

Day five of the Hormuz escalation: Iran struck US bases located in Kuwait and the UAE — Gulf states themselves — and some twenty Emirati civilian flights were disrupted. Qatar condemned the strikes, Oman quietly rejected the toll Tehran wants to levy, and Washington says it has cut contact while floating an embargo.

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WORLD

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Nepal: two workers pulled alive from a tunnel nine days after the Bhote Koshi flood

Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan were pulled alive on Friday 4 September from the tunnel of the Trishuli-3A hydropower site in Rasuwa, nine days after the Bhote Koshi flood. Searches continue at several Himalayan sites where hundreds of Nepali, Chinese, South Korean and Indian workers are still missing; Nepal's armed police force lost thirteen of its own at Timure.

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Nepal: 1,204 bodies recovered, over 4,200 missing — the race into the tunnels a week after the flood

A week after the Bhote Koshi flood, Nepal counts 1,204 bodies recovered and more than 4,200 missing. Rescuers are racing to reach survivors trapped in hydropower tunnels, 38 Australians remain unaccounted for, and China has reopened the Tibet road into the disaster zone.

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ENERGY & CLIMATE

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New US strikes near Hormuz: four killed at a wedding, Tehran retaliates into the Gulf

On 1 and 2 September 2026, the United States carried out further strikes against Iran around the Strait of Hormuz, hitting oil tankers among other targets. Several outlets report four people killed at a wedding. Tehran has promised "severe punishment" and struck back at US bases and at Gulf states hosting them. Oil reached a two-month high and Asian markets fell.

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DIPLOMACY & GOVERNANCE

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Nepal: 987 bodies recovered in Rasuwa, nearly 900 missing at eleven hydropower sites

A week after the flood triggered by a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border, Kathmandu announced on 1 September 2026 that 987 bodies had been recovered in Rasuwa district and more than 12,000 people rescued. Nearly 900 remain missing at eleven hydropower sites, including workers trapped in buried tunnels. Prime Minister Balendra Shah attributes the flood to climate change and is seeking help from the Loss and Damage Fund. Death tolls differ, including between Nepali sources.

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NATURAL DISASTERS

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Flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border: hundreds missing, including foreign tourists

An ice and rock avalanche triggered flash floods on the border between Nepal and Chinese Tibet. Reported death tolls differ sharply between countries, from several dozen to more than a hundred and sixty, and the missing range from a few hundred to nearly fifteen hundred. Among them are foreign tourists and Mount Kailash pilgrims. India has put Bihar on flood alert, Bangladesh has offered aid, Australia is searching for thirty-four nationals.

ENERGY & CLIMATE

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A South Korean container ship sails to Europe via the Arctic route, a first triggered by the closure of Hormuz

South Korea sent its first container ship from Busan to Europe via the Northern Sea Route, after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz made the usual Gulf and Suez itinerary unusable. The crossing, estimated at 45 days, cuts thousands of kilometres off the distance but depends on Russian permits and on a navigation window limited to a few months a year.

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

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TikTok pays $400 million to settle US children's privacy investigation

TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance agreed to pay 400 million dollars to the US Justice Department to close an investigation into the collection of minors' data. The settlement is described as one of the largest ever reached in the United States over children's privacy. The figure reported varies from country to country.

DIPLOMACY & GOVERNANCE

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Trump orders a sharp cut to military drills with South Korea, while praising Kim Jong-un

Donald Trump announced on 16 August that he had asked the Pentagon to "substantially" reduce joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his "very good relations" with Kim Jong-un and echoing the word "hostile" long used by Pyongyang. The next day the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise nevertheless began, with Seoul saying it was proceeding as planned. Nine countries cover the sequence, and the gap between the announcement and the ground is the central divergence.

INTERNATIONAL SPORT

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Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz "US territory"; Tehran hits back

Donald Trump said on 14 August that he would "very soon" make the Strait of Hormuz US territory. A White House official later described the remark as a joke, a nuance some countries report and others omit. Iranian deputy minister Kazem Gharibabadi hit back. About a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through the channel between Iran and Oman, where traffic has collapsed since February.

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CONFLICTS & SECURITY

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores: the tsunami alert crosses the Pacific, and the death toll ranges from 1 to 20

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Flores island, Indonesia, on 15 August. The terminal of Maumere port collapsed onto boarding passengers. The tsunami alert, issued then lifted, mobilised the Peruvian and Ecuadorian navies thousands of kilometres away. The death toll ranges from 1 to 20 depending on which level of the Indonesian state is quoted.

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