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The eruption of Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait suspended operations at eight Indonesian airports and paralysed part of Jakarta's air traffic. The continuous eruptive episode lasted about twenty-five hours before activity returned to a Strombolian pattern. Five fallback airports were opened around the clock. The number of passengers affected ranges from 150,000 to 170,000 depending on the source.
Vladimir Putin received US emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Saturday 5 September for three hours and ten minutes. The two men are expected in Kyiv on Sunday, where Volodymyr Zelensky is to receive them for the first time. The local three-day truce framing the visit suspends strikes on Kyiv and Moscow alone: elsewhere along the front, the bombardments continued.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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