30 h. ago Photos of mourners and searches for the missing from flash floods in Pakistan and India

Communities in mountainous areas of India and Pakistan are mourning the loss of hundreds of lives due to recent flash floods, with many families holding funerals as the search for those still missing continues.

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32 h. ago Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after huge cloudburst

Search for the missing continues in north-west after downpour also sparks deadly flooding and landslides in IndiaA massive cloudburst has triggered flash floods in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 157 people, as rescuers continued to search for people missing after floods in neighbouring India.Mohammad Suhail, a provincial emergency services spokesperson, said 78 bodies were recovered from various parts of Buner district in the north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by noon on Friday, and a further 79 were pulled later from the rubble of collapsed homes and flooded villages. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Fact check: Google Lens’s AI overviews shared misleading information

An investigation found the search tool failed to identify certain images as inauthentic and shared incorrect information about what some images show.

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40 h. ago Rescuers search for missing flash flood victims in remote Kashmir village

Authorities are searching for missing people in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir after flash floods caused by torrential rains

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47 h. ago India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger

Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each nightAt a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the country’s tricolour on a mast that towers above a Pakistani flag flying just across the frontier – part of an ongoing vertical duel in South Asia’s fraught politics.Call it flag warfare: a contest not of weapons but of height, waged by two nuclear-armed neighbours that only three months ago fought a four-day battle which threatened to escalate into full-scale war. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago India shot down military aircraft during clash with Pakistan, its air force claims

Pakistan previously claimed that it shot down six Indian aircraft during the clashes

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8 d. ago Flash floods kill at least 10 people and leave 33 missing in northwestern China

Chinese state media reports flash floods have left at least 10 people dead and 33 missing in Yuzhong County in China’s northwestern Gansu province

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9 d. ago Are Trump’s tariffs pushing rivals India and China closer together?

Trump’s targeting of India with hefty tariffs and closer ties with Pakistan could cost him a powerful ally in the Asia-Pacific region, reports Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

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1 week ago Pakistan’s deadly monsoon floods were worsened by global warming, study finds

A new study shows that heavy rainfall that caused floods that killed hundreds in Pakistan in recent weeks was worsened by human-caused climate change The study by World Weather Attribution was released on Thursday

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1 week ago Five dead and over 100 missing after flash flood sweeps away Himalayan village

Floodwaters destroy homes and road in Uttarakhand

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1 week ago Rescuers search for dozens missing after deadly flash floods kill 4 in northern India

Rescuers are scouring a devastated Himalayan village in northern India's Uttarakhand state to find missing people, a day after flash floods killed at least four and left many others trapped under debris

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1 week ago Four killed and over 100 missing after flash flood sweeps away Himalayan village

Floodwaters destroy homes and road in Uttarakhand

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1 week ago Chilling moment flash flood wipes out town leaving least 4 dead and 50 missing

Flash floods swept away homes and shops in northern India, killing at least four people and leaving many others trapped under debris. Floodwaters surged into a mountain village

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1 week ago About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India

Large-scale search and rescue operation under way after at least four people killed in Himalayan regionA torrent of mud from a flash flood has smashed into a town in India’s Himalayan region, tearing down a mountain valley before demolishing buildings and killing at least four people, with about 100 others missing.Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a terrifying surge of muddy water sweeping away blocks of flats in the tourist region of Dharali in Uttarakhand state. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Four dead and over 50 missing after flash flood sweeps away Himalayan village in India

Floodwaters destroy homes and road in Uttarakhand

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1 week ago More than 50 people missing after flash floods wash away Himalayan village in India

Floodwaters destroy homes and road in Uttarakhand

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3 w. ago Number of missing from devastating Kerr County flash floods drops to just 3

Flooding along the Guadalupe River killed at least 135 people on July 4 weekend

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3 w. ago Number of missing in devastating Kerr County flash floods drops to just 3

Flooding along the Guadalupe River killed at least 135 people on July 4 weekend

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last month Trump ‘to visit Pakistan before India’ after Islamabad backs him for Nobel Peace Prize

Trump has routinely taken credit for brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, a claim that has been rejected by New Delhi

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