- 2d ago
Greek police dismantle migrant smuggling ring, 10 arrested, 750,000 euros in profits
Greek police, working with Europol, arrested ten people in Thesprotia and Thessaloniki on 5 November 2026. The network had moved more than 500 migrants in 41 cases since at least June 2025.
- 2d ago
73% back youth protests as 82% say politics underserves young Germans
An ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll by infratest dimap, fielded 2 to 4 November among 1,297 eligible voters, puts understanding for the demonstrators at 73%. Young respondents trust the Linke and the AfD most to represent their interests.
- 4d ago
UNEP report: developing countries need 305 billion dollars a year for adaptation
UNEP says developing countries will need about 305 billion dollars a year by 2035, and even a tripled flow of public finance would cover only 20% to 29% of that. The report arrives ahead of COP31 in Antalya.
- 5d ago
Two helicopters collide while landing near Mount Everest in Nepal, killing one Indian tourist
A midair collision between two helicopters at Pheriche, in Nepal's Solukhumbu district, killed a 47-year-old Indian tourist on Tuesday, 3 November. A New Zealand visitor and pilots were injured while the aircraft were coming in to land on the Everest Base Camp trekking route.
- 6d ago
UN reports warn glacier and sea-ice losses may be irreversible above 1.5C warming
Two UN reports published on Monday, 2 November 2026, say that passing 1.5C of global warming would bring significant and often irreversible damage to glaciers, sea ice and permafrost. Copernicus estimates the threshold could be exceeded around 2030.
- Oct 26
German climber, 57, dies in 1,500-metre fall on Nepal's Ama Dablam
A 57-year-old German man died after falling about 1,500 metres while descending the 6,814-metre peak on Monday, 26 October. His body was recovered by a search team the same day and flown to Kathmandu.
- Oct 20
Kasia Smutniak presents Mustang at Rome Film Festival, a documentary on Taricone and a Nepal school
The documentary follows a 2003 trip to Nepal's Mustang region that Kasia Smutniak made with Pietro Taricone, and a school she later helped build there. It reaches Italian cinemas on 23 November through Fandango.
- Oct 13
Flash flood in Nepal's Gorkha strands over 100 trekkers, five people missing
A flash flood triggered by a predawn landslide that blocked the Budhi Gandaki River hit Gorkha district on Sunday, 11 October, with no deaths reported but five people out of contact. The army rescued 321 people on Monday, 12 October, while more than 100 foreign trekkers remained stranded on the Manaslu trail.
- Oct 1
Avalanche at Nepal's Himlung Himal base camp kills 15 local expedition staff
Rescuers in Nepal have recovered 15 bodies from the Himlung Himal base camp after a cyclone-driven avalanche buried 16 local expedition workers under four metres of snow.
- Sep 28
Flooding and landslides kill over 100 across northern India and Nepal
Severe monsoon downpours caused extensive flooding and landslides across northern India and Nepal, killing at least 81 people in Uttar Pradesh and 27 in Nepal while displacing tens of thousands.
- Sep 26
Nepal demands grant-based climate aid at UN after Himalayan glacier flood kills over 1,400
Prime Minister Balendra Shah asked the UN General Assembly for direct grant financing to rebuild from a glacier flood that killed at least 1,450 people, leaving $4.78 billion in damage across Nepal.
