Nepal

Floods and landslides have killed 56 people in India and 14 in Nepal, according to a Reuters report. Heavy monsoon rains continue to batter the region, triggering flash floods and slope failures across affected states and districts. Authorities are carrying out rescue and relief operations as officials warn the death toll could rise further.

Flooding in Nepal is renewing warnings about the dangers of melting glaciers across the Himalayas. Commentators are asking what scale of destruction could follow if Himalayan glaciers continue to thaw, pointing to the region's vulnerability to glacial lake outburst floods and downstream damage to villages, infrastructure and hydropower. The floods have put climate risk in the Himalayas back at the centre of public discussion in India and Nepal.

Nepal has promoted hydropower as a cornerstone of economic growth and renewable energy, but an August flood exposed how vulnerable its dams and infrastructure are to extreme weather. Observers are questioning whether the country's rapid build-out of hydropower projects can withstand increasingly severe climate-driven disasters in the Himalayas.

Reports say more than 500 million children across conflict- and disaster-affected regions, including Gaza, Sudan and Nepal, are in desperate need of access to education. The figure highlights the scale of disrupted schooling in war zones and areas hit by instability or natural disasters, with aid organizations and media outlets drawing attention to a growing global education emergency affecting hundreds of millions of young people.