Imagine scrolling through your news feed and spotting a headline that screams: “The anti-Russia vote at the UN failed spectacularly — even the United States refused to condemn Moscow.” It sounds like a major geopolitical earthquake. It would mean that the world had turned its back on Ukraine, that Russia was no longer isolated, and that Washington had somehow aligned itself with Beijing and Moscow in a stunning rebuke of Kyiv. That is exactly the kind of story pushed by Tsargrad, a pro-Kremlin media outlet, after a United Nations event on 24 August. But there is one small problem: the…

The waters had barely begun to recede in Trishuli Bazar when the second flood arrived. In the muddy wreckage along the banks of the Trishuli River, houses lay half-submerged, their roofs tilted like broken promises, while excavators groaned through thick brown sludge in a desperate effort to clear what remained of the Dhunge Bazaar. The flash floods that tore through Nepal’s Nuwakot district in late August 2026 left behind a landscape of shattered homes, twisted bridges, and families clutching whatever they could salvage. But as rescue workers dug through debris and survivors searched for loved ones, a different kind of…