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Nuwakot (AFP) – “We are survivors of the flood and are staying here, thinking that there will be something for survivors like us. I do not have my father and brother. My mother was killed in the 2015 earthquake,” says 30-year-old Tara Maya Tamang who is staying at a temporary relief centre in Trishuli, in Nepal’s Nuwakot. The August 26 glacial and mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border has killed at least 1,372 people and left more than 5,500 missing across the two countries.

Braemar (AFP) – King Charles and Queen Camilla join cheering crowds watching the Highland games events at the annual Braemar Gathering, in central Scotland. The events include hammer throwing, tug-of-war, Highland dancing and a parade of pipers.

Magdeburg (Germany) (AFP) – The view outside a polling station in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt as voting starts in a regional election that could see the far-right Alternative for Germany win its first state government. More than 1.7 million voters have until 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) to elect state lawmakers in a vote seen as a key test for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s increasingly unpopular federal coalition. IMAGES

Laem Chabang (Thailand) (AFP) – Thousands of US sailors aboard an aircraft carrier depart from Thailand, concluding its first port call after nine months at sea. The 5,000-strong crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln docked just north of the resort town of Pattaya, near Bangkok, for five days of rest and recreation after a lengthy Middle East deployment. IMAGES

Kathmandu (AFP) – People stick up notices of missing people on a wall in Nepal’s Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, as emergency response teams continue their searches 10 days after catastrophic flooding. So far 1,331 bodies have been recovered in Nepal, according to the national disaster agency. Around 5,000 people remain missing in the country.

Vereinte Nationen (AFP) – “The resolution adopted today reaffirms African reality,” says Togo’s foreign minister Robert Dussey, as the United Nations General Assembly votes to adopt a map that makes the continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. The resolution, which aims at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, was supported by 164 countries while the United States voted against it and six other states abstained.

Aného (AFP) – On the waters of Lake Togo, a canoe advances slowly. On board, the mystical tam-tam Aklima is led towards a sacred forest where it will resonate to give the signal of a major step: the release of the 363rd sacred stone. Each year, the Guins of Aneho, Togo’s second city, wait attentively for the release of this stone whose colour is interpreted as a sign of what awaits the next 12 months. This year’s stone, white in colour, announces a year of “purity, peace and prosperity,” says a Voodoo priest.

Nuwakot (AFP) – Rescuers in Nepal pull alive a Chinese national from a tunnel and a local woman from her partially submerged home, as emergency response teams search with renewed vigour for thousands missing since catastrophic flooding 10 days ago. A tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through the China-Nepal border following a vast glacial and rock collapse on August 26, killing at least 1,362 people and leaving more than 5,500 missing.

Venedig (AFP) – Liam and Noel Gallagher arrive by boat to the Venice Film Festival ahead of the premiere of ther tour documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger”. Screaming fans greet the once feuding brothers as they dock on the pier while others are already camping out at the red carpet — over 10 hours ahead of the premiere.

Austin (AFP) – Electric vehicle-maker Tesla rolls out its fully self-driving taxi, a gold car named “Cybercab,” which the Elon Musk-owned company hopes will compete with Uber and Waymo in the driverless market. Unlike Tesla’s previous driverless release, last year’s Model Y SUV and “Robotaxi service”, “Cybercab” is specifically designed to be an autonomous vehicle and has been built without pedals or a steering wheel. “I think it’ll change transportation from owning your own car to actually just getting transportation as a service,” says Australian tourist Graham Sprigg, “which is fantastic for disabled people and old people.”

Unknown (AFP) – Footage released by US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) shows US forces intercepting and destroying a vessel that US officials say was supporting at-sea drug trafficking by an Ecuadorian criminal organization. According to a SOUTHCOM post on X, the boat was “operating as a floating refueling station” in support of Los Choneros, one of Ecuador’s main drug trafficking and extortion groups. The interception comes after a similar operation that destroyed a vessel linked to the gang.

Banteay Meanchey (Cambodia) (AFP) – Rows of green roofs stretch into the distance at a Cambodian “waiting village”, that houses thousands of people displaced during last year’s deadly border clashes with Thailand. For those who lived in tents for months in the wake of the fighting, the huts are a marked improvement, and residents have set up coffee shops, salons and grocery stores in an effort to rebuild their lives. But most just want to return home, to land now held by Thai forces. “I still miss my home,” says one of those living in the new settlement, “because what I built for 20, 30 years is all there.” Bangkok says it has merely reclaimed Thai land that Cambodians had been occupying for years.