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Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days after catastrophic flash flooding hit the border between Nepal and China.  Their efforts were briefly put on hold on Friday after a lake formed by debris began overflowing, threatening areas already devastated by the disaster.   "We have received a notice saying that the lake has broken its banks," Narendra Pariyar, the most senior bureaucrat of the hard-hit Rasuwa district, told DW. "We can see that the level of water in the river is rising." Residents in Nepal's border district of Rasuwa were seen fleeing up hillsides as they braced for a surge in river levels, Reuters reported. Authorities later said the threat had eased but that they were closely monitoring the situation.  Meanwhile, Nepal said the ...

Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king of the traditional pre-colonial kingdom of Tooro, has died aged just 34, the prime minister of Tooro announced late on Thursday.  "It is with profound sadness and a heavy heart that I announce the passing of His Majesty Omukama of Tooro, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV," Tooro's regional leader Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki said on social media.  What is the role of traditional monarchs in Uganda?  Uganda is a republic, ruled by a parliament and a nominally-elected head of state, longstanding President Yoweri Museveni, who's been in power since 1986.  But the country retains several traditional monarchies that still preside over their kingdoms as they were constituted in the pre-colonial period. Their power is largely symbolic but they wield consid...

Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days after catastrophic flash flooding hit the border between Nepal and China.  Their efforts were briefly put on hold on Friday after a lake formed by debris began overflowing, threatening areas already devastated by the disaster.   "We have received a notice saying that the lake has broken its banks," Narendra Pariyar, the most senior bureaucrat of the hard-hit Rasuwa district, told DW. "We can see that the level of water in the river is rising." Residents in Nepal's border district of Rasuwa were seen fleeing up hillsides as they braced for a surge in river levels, Reuters reported. Authorities later said the threat had eased but that they were closely monitoring the situation.  Meanwhile, Nepal said the ...

Norway's King Harald, Europe's oldest living monarch, has died at 89, the royal court said on Friday. The monarch had been receiving treatment for a rare blood condition, hemolytic anemia, at Oslo University Hospital since mid-August. What the palace said about King Harald's death "It is with deep sadness that we announce that His Majesty King Harald passed away today. King Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital on Friday, August 28 at 6:35 a.m.," the palace said in a statement. Harald's condition worsened over the last few days, and his wife, Queen Sonja, and son, Prince Haakon, canceled all their engagements to be at his bedside. Haakon automatically becomes King Haakon VIII, succeeding his father as Norway's head of state. The Norwegian monarch has a largely cere...

A lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border began overflowing on Friday, threatening areas already devastated by this week's flash floods and halting rescue efforts, authorities said.  "We have received a notice saying that the lake has broken its banks," Narendra Pariyar, the most senior bureaucrat of the hard-hit Rasuwa district, told DW. "We can see that the level of water in the river is rising." Residents in Nepal's border district of Rasuwa were seen fleeing up hillsides as they braced for a surge in river levels, Reuters reported. Due to the risk of the lake bursting, all Chinese rescue personnel were told to withdraw to a safe area, state broadcaster CCTV said. Nepal authorities also paused rescue operations for the next 90 minutes, an army official told Reuters. Res...

Norway's King Harald, Europe's oldest living monarch, has died at 89, the royal court said on Friday. The monarch had been receiving treatment for a rare blood condition, hemolytic anemia, at Oslo University Hospital since mid-August. "It is with deep sadness that we announce that His Majesty King Harald passed away today. King Harald passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital on Friday, August 28 at 6:35 a,m.," the palace said in a statement. His condition worsened over the last few days, and his wife, Queen Sonja, and son, Prince Haakon, canceled all their engagements to be at his bedside. Harald, who had been monarch since 1991, will be succeeded by Prince Haakon. This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates.

Thieves on Thursday raided one of the world's greatest Bronze Age gold collections in the latest of a series of high-profile heists on European museums in recent months.  The early morning raid on Villena Museum in eastern Spain lasted just a few minutes.  A group of thieves described by one official as "super-fast and super-professional" made off with almost the entire Treasure of Villena collection, leaving behind only a few items.  What happened in the heist?  "The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around 5:20 a.m.," said a spokesman for the town council, adding that within four minutes, they had all left the building again in an extremely rapid and professional operation.  The collection of Bronze Age gold, some of which we now know hailed from a meteorite, was a centerpiece at...