Pakistan floods: Officials struggle to stop biggest lake overflowing
By Pumza Fihlani in Islamabad & Simon Fraser in London
BBC News
Pakistani authorities are struggling to stop their biggest lake from bursting its banks after last-ditch attempts to lower water levels failed.
Manchar Lake, in Sindh province, is dangerously full after record monsoons that inundated a third of Pakistan.
Three breaches of the lake's banks so far - two to protect areas nearby - have displaced over 100,000 people.
But it could still overflow and rescue teams are racing to evacuate many more people who remain at risk of drowning.
Brazil braces for turbulence on eve of Bolsonaro’s independence day rallies
Rightwing glee over president’s beach party contrasts with progressive anger that bicentennial celebration has been hijacked
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
At daybreak on Wednesday, Sgt Alexandre Martins will pull a yellow Brazil shirt on to his bullet-pocked body and set off from his suburban home for a date with destiny on Copacabana beach.
“It’s going to go down in history. It’ll be a unique moment – a watershed … It will astonish the world,” promised the 44-year-old police veteran who has spent half his life battling drug gangs in the city’s favelas and carries lead in his flesh as proof.
The seaside extravaganza to which Martins is heading has been marshalled by Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, in an attempt to show strength before the country’s most important election since the return of democracy in 1985.
Turkish leader repeats veiled threat to Greece over feuds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey could “come all of a sudden one night” in response to perceived Greek threats
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday doubled down on his warning that Turkey could “come all of a sudden one night” in response to perceived Greek threats, suggesting a Turkish attack on its neighbor cannot be ruled out.
Questioned about his earlier use of the phrase and the possibility of Turkish military action against its NATO ally, Erdogan reiterated the expression.
“What I’m talking about is not a dream,” he said at a news conference in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. “If what I said was that we could come one night all of a sudden (it means) that, when the time comes, we can come suddenly one night.”
Somalia: Malnutrition killing hundreds of children, UN says
The fifth drought in as many years has brought Somalia to the brink, raising fears of a deadly famine. Hundreds of children have already died from severe acute malnutrition.
Some 730 children have died in nutrition centers around Somalia already this year, the United Nation's children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday.
Nutrition centers help children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
The announcement comes a day after the UN warned of a coming famine in the Horn of Africa. The region is facing its fifth consecutive failed rainy season.
Israel’s shifting narratives on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Changing its tune several times, Israel has now concluded it is ‘highly possible’ one of its soldiers killed Shireen Abu Akleh.
The Israeli government and military narrative on the May 11 killing of Al Jazeera’s veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has shifted numerous times over the past few months.
Witnesses, including Al Jazeera journalists, immediately said Israeli forces had carried out the shooting in Jenin, a claim that was backed up by numerous investigations by media outlets, human rights organisations, and the United Nations.
China approves world's first inhaled Covid vaccine for emergency use
Updated 0835 GMT (1635 HKT) September 6, 2022
China has become the first country to green-light an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for potential use of the needle-free product in the country, where suppressing the spread of Covid-19 remains a top priority.
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