In the thin, brittle air of the high Himalayas, where glaciers cling to steep slopes and rivers carve through ancient rock, a catastrophe unfolded that would test not only the limits of rescue but the meaning of truth itself. On August 26, a glacial mountain collapse near the border between China and Nepal released a wall of water, mud, and debris that moved with the force of a tsunami, swallowing entire villages, roads, bridges, and lives. More than 1,400 people were swept away and killed, while over 5,650 were listed as missing, including hundreds of foreigners who had come to…

The latest round of Russian information warfare arrived on 10 September with a familiar shape: a dramatic claim, amplified by state media, designed to plant suspicion between Ukraine and its Western partners. According to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the European Commission had supposedly welcomed an intensifying debate in Ukraine about mobilising women, with European countries allegedly pressing Kyiv to conscript women into military service because of a shortage of soldiers. It was a story crafted to sound plausible, especially to audiences already anxious about the long, exhausting war. But the problem is that the story was false. Within hours,…