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Grief-stricken Nepalis entered the traditional Hindu last day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds who died in the catastrophic flood along the country's border with China even as the government kept search operations going ​after four ‌miracle rescues in recent days.

Economic · Economic

If oil exports from the region return to normal, prices could fall to $80 per barrel, Daan Struyven, co-head of global commodities research at the bank, said

Natural · Natural

Nepal flags fly at half-mast to mark a day of mourning after catastrophic Himalayan floods kill more than 1,300.

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence says Russia has enough resources to wage war through 2027 and 2028, but effective sanctions could weaken its war machine.

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Iran war shows Gulf cannot rely on US for security, Qatar says Spokesperson for the Qatari foreign ministry Majed al-Ansari said the war on Iran had shown that Gulf states could no longer rely on strategic alliances with the US for their security. Speaking at the Hili Forum in Abu Dhabi, Ansari said the international forces and the US alliance were important but "not enough" to ensure the security of the region. “We need to realise in the Gulf that having international forces in the region, having a strategic alliance with the US is very important but is not enough. Self-sufficiency when it comes to security is the only way forward,” Ansari said. Qatar and other Gulf states have condemned Iran's strikes on energy and other infrastructure across the region, saying they violate international law and the UN Charter. Alongside Pakistan, Qatar played a key role in brokering an April ceasefire and a June memorandum of understanding between Iran and the US, but both arrangements have since collapsed.

Military · Geopolitical

Military sources in Yemen say more than 140 combatants were killed in fighting between its government and Houthi rebels in the southwest of the country over the weekend. Days-long clashes have erupted in the country over the control of a gateway to the Red Sea, marking the deadliest fighting in the Arabian Peninsula country since a 2022 ceasefire between the two sides collapsed in July.

Social Demographic · Culture

The latest in our series of writers recommending their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder that Disney’s kids fantasy is more than a Mary Poppins knock-off “ Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee! ” – the four incantatory words I blame for receiving a shonky Paul Daniels Magic Set as a child in the 80s. In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it’s the spell that Angela Lansbury’s patriotic Nazi-vanquishing witch Eglantine Price casts to transform people into fluffy rabbits; a trick I yearned to pull off. When it became clear I wouldn’t deter the Third Reich with three plastic thimbles, a deck of playing cards and a flaccid wand, my conjuring kit was mothballed – but my irrational love of the Disney film remains to this day. For me, it originally fell into the category of the crackling VHS that your parents taped off ITV at Christmas then would repeatedly plonk you in front of to shut you up – to the point I can even recall the adverts. Continue reading...

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Concerns over police response to Dover protest and Portsmouth blockade will dog Westminster this week

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Iran says new anti-ship missile was tested over US warship Iran has successfully tested a new anti-ship missile over a US Navy vessel, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, said, according to Fars News. “For the first time, we tested our anti-ship missile above an American warship,” Rezaei said during a televised interview Sunday night. He described the weapon as a “special missile” that “created hell for the Americans”, claiming the US vessels fled the area. Earlier Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its Aerospace Force had fired several ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and an American destroyer involved in the blockade, forcing the vessels to leave the area, Fars News reported. US Central Command has acknowledged that the vessels came under attack by "hostile missiles", adding that they were defeated without damage and were met with retaliatory strikes. Rezaei said the acknowledgement by US Central Command showed that Washington could not conceal the strikes, calling them a warning that the US naval blockade was vulnerable.

Natural · Natural

Nepal is seeking financial aid following the catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, tapping a global financial mechanism established to address the impacts of climate change in developing countries. Kathmandu has formally requested the UN-backed Fund for responding to Loss and Damage to “respond rapidly, directly and effectively” amid the country’s worst natural disaster in decades. In a letter signed by Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle...

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Philippine prosecutors filed a criminal charge on Monday against a lawmaker and cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr over his alleged involvement in a massive corruption scandal involving bogus flood-control projects. The case came more than a year after Marcos put the so-called “ghost” infrastructure projects, believed to have cost Filipino taxpayers billions of dollars, centre stage in a public address. Several construction firm owners, government officials and politicians have been...

Military · Geopolitical

In the port of Izmail, a production and loading complex was struck, which was used for unloading military cargo delivered to Kiev by Western countries from vessels

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, exit polls showed, putting a far-right party within reach of power at the state level for the first time since World War Two. However, France 24’s correspondent in Berlin, Nick Holdsworth, says it is “hard to say” if the victory is more the result of dissatisfaction with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s governing conservatives, or an explicit endorsement of the AfD.

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Laurence Lévesque’s powerful documentary follows a woman who discovers a support network among her mother’s generation of survivors of the nuclear blast No words are spoken during the first five minutes of Laurence Lévesque’s documentary. In a rustic house on the island city of Nagasaki, a Japanese woman in her 60s, Noriko, draws back the curtains to let in the glow of dawn. The tranquil mood, however, is deceptive. Once her childhood home, the place holds a lifetime of secrets, which Norkia only discovers after her parents’ death. While clearing out the house, she comes across letters received by her mother that shed light on her turmoil as a survivor of Nagasaki’s atomic bombing in 1945. Noriko has always known her mother was a hibakusha – a term referring to people who survived the nuclear bombs. Already scarred by psychological and physical trauma, the victims also faced ostracism in the postwar period, with many barred from work or marriage. Perhaps due to the stigma, Noriko’s mother mentioned little of this to Noriko and her siblings. The letters, however, reveal a moving network of support among the hibakusha, as well as those who lost their loved ones in the bombings. In one heartbreaking note, a grieving mother speaks of sending a healthy son into the army, only to receive his hair and clipped nails in return. Continue reading...

Military · Geopolitical

Iran invokes UN charter in defence of strikes on US bases Iran considers its military actions, including strikes against US bases in the Middle East, to be “completely legal” under its right to self-defence, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said. He said Tehran was acting in response to what he described as a US naval blockade and a “full-scale economic war”. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is in a position of legitimate self-defence and defence of national interests because of the continuation of the naval blockade and full-scale economic war,” Baghaei told reporters. He said Iran’s actions were legal “within the framework of the inherent right of self-defence based on Article 51 of the United Nations Charter”, adding that US attacks on civilians and the killing of children “completely invalidate” Washington’s claims.

Social Demographic · Sports

This year, the noise at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center has officially become A Problem. But changing it would mean changing society The first thing you notice while sitting in the upper tiers of Arthur Ashe Stadium is the noise. A persistent exterior hum filters up from ground level, fed by the massive ventilation and cooling units that sit outside the stadium, the clack of the Long Island Rail Road to the north, and the forklifts receiving goods from the refrigerator trucks that keep the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center flush with its essential supplies of Evian, champagne, and premium IPA. Overhead, planes descending toward LaGuardia airport ensure the auditory assault takes place by land and air simultaneously. In the lower rakes of the stadium, the babble of the spectators is incessant; it’s not unusual to overhear full-volume conversations on various non-tennis topics – work, family, romance, last night’s dinner – that continue without interruption for the duration of an entire match. New York is famously noisy, and the US Open, as the most glamorous annual sporting event in town, has always been loud in sympathy with its environment. Indeed, the brashness of the American grand slam has historically been its major selling point, the signature that distinguishes it from the Australian Open (the “happy slam”), Wimbledon (strawberries and cream, all-white attire, the home of tennis), and the French Open (French). People have been complaining about the volume of the New York crowd for decades. But this year the noise at the US Open feels different. This year noise at the noisy slam has become A Problem. Continue reading...

Military · Geopolitical

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s promise to unveil more projects in eight months’ time at the launch of the country’s second modern destroyer hints at another major strategic military asset, according to experts. “The nuclearisation of our navy is being realised, making it increasingly suited, diversified and practical for the use of our deterrent,” Kim said while commissioning the Kang Kon in the southeastern port of Wonsan on Sunday. Kim was accompanied by his daughter and potential...

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Thousands of mourners on Monday gathered at a church in Belgrade to view the body of Ratko Mladic, who died in The Hague, Netherlands, on August 27 while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The European Union has heavily criticised the event, and Marta Kos, the bloc's enlargement commissioner, cancelled an upcoming visit to Serbia in protest.

Social Demographic · Education

The school in Barentsburg operates in compliance with Russian educational standards

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Some consumers in Donetsk, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts remain without electricity on the morning of 7 September as a result of combat operations and Russian strikes on energy facilities.

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong brings to Venice his first feature for eight years. It is a finely judged, beautifully acted and rather novelistic work, in which a character at one point actually compares her surroundings to something from a novel. It is expansive and diffuse in terms of storytelling scope and dramatic focus, rich in intelligence while paying its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent also. There are moments of pure inspiration in the superb flashback scenes of two characters’ early lives, and I rather regretted that these flashbacks were phased out relatively early on and that more was not made of their relationship with the present. Possible Love is perhaps a little contrived and self-aware and unsure how much emphasis to lay on its moments of irony and comedy, but it is made with such fluency and verve. It is a tale of two couples. Jeon Do-yeon (from Lee’s Secret Sunshine) and Sul Kyung-gu play Mi-ok and Ho-seok, a deeply unhappy married couple from a blue-collar background with a young son. Ho-seok is angry, depressed and struggling with a drinking problem after a catastrophic end to a strike at the factory where he worked. While at the funeral of a colleague of Ho-seok’s, who has taken his own life, he and Mi-ok meet a fashionable and wealthy couple who are making a documentary about the injustice of the way the factory workers were treated. (This couple have a dog instead of a child. ) Continue reading...

Social Demographic · Culture

May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women The enduring cult of male genius is keeping down female film-makers, one of the only two female directors in the running for the top prize at this year’s Venice film festival has warned. “I’ve never ever read an article where a female director is promoted as a genius,” said the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, whose film Woman Unknown has been selected for the Golden Lion competition on the Lido this year. Continue reading...

Social Demographic · Culture

Venice film festival A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival Here is an elegantly appointed drama-thriller from May el-Toukhy, about sexual shame and political paranoia in postwar Denmark, with something of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, which it consciously recalls. As director and co-writer, El-Toukhy has created a shrewd and painful movie about the terrible things you need to do to survive, and what it takes to forget those things afterwards. The scene is a prosperous, upper-middle-class apartment in Copenhagen just after the second world war, when the Danish resistance was permitted the powers of a secret-police militia to detain and interrogate those suspected of having given assistance to the Nazis. Christian (Carsten Bjørnlund) is a ageing factory owner and widower who has evidently fallen in love with his infant daughter’s nanny: this is Marie (fiercely and convincingly played by Mathilde Arcel). Or at any rate, he sees that the child needs a new mother, finds Marie attractive and appreciates her submissive attitude. They are now engaged. Continue reading...

Social Demographic · Culture

Ratko Mladic is gone. The racial ideology that produced him is not Submitted by Amina Shareef on Mon, 08/31/2026 - 20:19 Despite the death of one of its most zealous proponents, the toxic worldview that underpinned the Bosnian genocide retains its global reach A defaced mural depicts former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic in Belgrade, Serbia, on 27 August 2026 (Andrej Isakovic/AFP) Off Many of us will have the fortune of being warmly remembered after death. Others will have the misfortune of being completely forgotten. And then there are those who will be recalled alongside some of humanity’s darkest crimes. Remembered at his death as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, Ratko Mladic belongs to the last category. He will forever be remembered as the Serbian general who orchestrated the campaign to ethnically cleanse Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Muslim population. He will be remembered for the murder of around 100,000 people, the displacement of two million, the disappearance of 40,000, and the rape of tens of thousands of Bosniak women and girls between 1992 and 1995. He will be remembered for the destruction of 614 mosques, 218 prayer rooms, 69 Quran schools and four dervish lodges, alongside countless libraries, archives and museums. Above all, he will be remembered for Srebrenica: for laying siege to a supposed UN safe area, and cold-bloodedly executing more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. No, he will not be remembered kindly. Nor will he be forgotten. Mladic is dead; good riddance - but also, so what? The man might be gone, but the racial ideology of Serbian nationalism that enabled his crimes is not. Indeed, it has been given new life in some sections of the global far right. And as these far-right movements swell in number and gain political ground, the spectre of another Bosnia becomes all too real. Ethnic cleansing Whether a man convicted of genocide is dead matters far less than whether the political forces that made genocide possible are once again gathering strength. The ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks - Muslim Bosnians - was driven by a strand of Serbian nationalism that aspired to unite all Serbs within a single, ethnically homogeneous state: Greater Serbia. Its roots can be traced back to the decline of Ottoman rule in the Balkans during the 19th century. Yet contrary to perspectives that frame Eastern European nationalisms as forms of primordial tribalism or endemic ethnic conflict, Serbian nationalism is recognisable as a racial ideology comparable to those found in Western Europe and across settler-colonial societies, such as North America and Australia. Genocide is never committed by a single individual, nor do its racial logics disappear after its most notorious architects die At its a core, a racial ideology operates through three interrelated processes: the differentiation of a population into distinct categories, the hierarchisation of those categories, and the authorisation of the exclusion, expulsion or extermination of the subordinated category. This is precisely how Serbian nationalism functions. It consolidates the category of the Orthodox Christian Serbian as distinct and privileged, in spite of the shared ethnic lineage of Serbs and Bosniaks. Although Bosniaks are indigenous Balkan peoples whose ancestors gradually converted to Islam throughout the 500 years of Ottoman rule, Serbian nationalist discourse evicts them from the national collective, recasting them as traitors to Christianity, “Turks”, and thus occupiers of a land they have called home for centuries. Once designated as foreigners, their mass murder and displacement could be justified as an act of national and religious preservation. Contrary to popular memory, Serbian nationalism did not first gain political traction in the 1990s. It has a longer history. During the Second World War, the royalist Serbian nationalist movement known as the Chetniks carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosniak Muslims. In Crimes Against Bosnian Muslims 1941-1945, historian Semso Tucakovic documents that villages and homes were burned, mosques were destroyed, and approximately 100,000 Muslim civilians were massacred in a lesser-known Bosnian genocide. Far-right revival The Chetniks’ contempt for non-Serbian populations, and their ambitions for creating an “ethnically pure” Serbian state, have been compared to the race thinking that underpinned Nazi conceptions of the Untermensch (non-Aryan “subhumans”) and the pursuit of an exclusively German Lebensraum. The Bosnian genocide of the 1990s was thus neither an aberration nor a spontaneous eruption of ethnic conflict, but a Balkan manifestation of a very European way of managing non-whiteness. Bosnia crisis: Why Muslims could once again end up in mass graves Read More » Understanding Serbian nationalism as a racial ideology and genocidal logic is important. It locates the Bosnian case within a longer history of genocide driven by race thinking, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people, the Nakba, the Holocaust, the annihilation of Indigenous peoples across settler-colonial states, and countless other colonial genocides. More importantly, it allows us to sharpen our understanding of our political present, and to see the genocidal dangers posed by the revival and glorification of Serbian nationalism by the rising far right. For many Europeans, the Bosnian genocide is barely known history. For contemporary far-right movements, however, it is very familiar - and even celebrated. A Serbian nationalist song written to boost the morale of Bosnian Serb forces during the genocide has become a transnational far-right meme known as “ Remove Kebab ”. The song was played by Brenton Tarrant in 2019 as he drove to the Christchurch mosques, where he murdered 51 Muslim worshippers. In his manifesto, he described himself as a “ kebab removalist ”. Tarrant wasn’t alone. His inspiration and fellow white supremacist, Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011, repeatedly mentioned Serbia throughout his manifesto. He praised Radovan Karadzic, the president of Serbia during the Bosnian genocide and convicted war criminal, as an “honourable Crusader and a European war hero”. Back to the mainstream Such references are important. For one, they expose a transnational political imagination in which the massacre of a European Muslim population is a history to be admired and continued in the present. This alignment can be seen not only in manifestos, but also in nationalist ideologies. The narrative structure of Serbian nationalism is mimicked across the European far-right: non-white categories are expelled from the national collective, marked as immigrants, migrants and asylum seekers. They are racialised as Muslim, regardless of their actual religious affiliation. Expulsion and violence are framed as necessary for white continuity and survival. We risk being blindsided by the politics of the far right, unaware of the unfolding conditions that make mass death and expulsion in Europe likely once more We see this most vividly in the UK, where some far-right groups focus primarily on targeting migrants and migrant accommodation centres. Violence committed by migrants is routinely racialised as “Muslim violence”, and Islam consistently features as the central object of animus at far-right rallies. “Remigration” appears as a key plank of immigration policy, with violence framed as the defence of a white, Christian nation. Understanding the afterlives of Serbian nationalism in the resurgence of white supremacist movements around the world is crucial. It allows us to see that the ideological scaffolding of the Bosnian genocide survives the death of one of its most zealous proponents. Mladic is dead. By now, we should know this doesn’t make Muslims safer. Genocide is never committed by a single individual, nor do its racial logics disappear after its most notorious architects die, are imprisoned, or face trial before international courts. They continue to live on. They may retreat to the margins of political life, but they continue to circulate through cultural memory. And when the political conditions are right, they are brought back into the mainstream and given political and parliamentary power. The task is to recognise this reality. Without doing so, we risk being blindsided by the politics of the far right, unaware of the unfolding conditions that make mass death and expulsion in Europe likely once more. Mladic is dead. The danger he embodied is not. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. Racism Opinion Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:29 Update Date Override 0

Social Demographic · Culture

Oscar-winning actor says she and other outspoken critics of Israel have found it ‘impossible’ to get hired by major studios The Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon has said she is still losing work because of her outspoken support for Palestinians, despite what she ⁠described as a broader shift ⁠in public opinion against ​US support for Israel. Speaking at the Venice film festival, where she is promoting her latest movie The Echo Chamber, Sarandon said some parts of the film industry continued to ⁠shun her over her activism. Continue reading...

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon's Kfar Rumman rises to 11 At least 11 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the town of Kfar Rumman in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported. Nine people, including two infants, were killed after a strike targeted a three-story residential building. Five others were wounded in the attack. Meanwhile, two others were killed after an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle in the same town. The two victims, Ali Shahrour and Hadi Farhat, were identified as paramedics from the Islamic Scout Association.

Social Demographic · Sports

Kieren Perkins expresses concern over some traditional sports Door is open to likes of cricket and netball for Games in Australia Former gold-medal winning swimmer and Australia’s most senior sport executive, Kieren Perkins, has called on the IOC to modernise the sporting program for Brisbane 2032, arguing that some current Olympic sports “have no modern relevance whatsoever”. The IOC has indicated it wishes to curb a long-term trend of a rise in the number of sports at the Games. Sydney 2000 featured 28 sports, while Los Angeles 2028 is set to feature 36, including many with more than one discipline – for example road and track cycling – that require multiple venues. Continue reading...

Geopolitical · Geopolitical

Lebanon says renewed attacks jeopardise a US-brokered ceasefire meant to end the conflict between Israel and armed group Hezbollah.

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Median £42,000 in reserve not enough to cover filming overrun or delay to series, industry body warns Hundreds of small UK TV companies have so little cash in reserve that a filming overrun or a delay to a series could send them bust, an industry body has warned, as programme budget cuts by broadcasters threaten their future. Analysis of the Companies House accounts filings of more than 200 of the estimated 800 independent TV production companies in the UK by the industry body Indielab has found that 40% face running out of cash within the next two years. Continue reading...

Social Demographic · Sports

In an extract from a new book, the Danish former referee recalls sending off the England midfielder for his infamous kick on Diego Simeone At half-time on 30 June 1998, Kim Milton Nielsen stepped into the changing room at the Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium in Saint-Étienne. The air reeked of wet towels. He hugged his assistants. They’d just taken charge of the best half of football they’d ever officiated. Argentina v England. World Cup round of 16. Michael Owen had terrorised Argentina with blistering runs and his breakout goal. A clever free-kick had outsmarted the English defence. Nielsen had awarded two penalties. He couldn’t wait for the second half, but he didn’t know what was coming. Continue reading...