Tibetan regional government press briefing: an emergency team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Chengdu Institute, using remote sensing and field surveys, concluded that at about 10:52 a.m. Beijing time on Aug. 26 a glacier on the southern slope of a peak in Nepal ruptured at ~5,200m, triggering an ice‑rock collapse that fell to ~4,000m, scoured the slope and produced a giant debris flow. The flow traveled roughly 22km and reached the Jilong (Gyirong) border port at about 1,800m, flattening

After Iran security affairs chief Mohsen Rezaee said any future war would be "different," Sultan Barakat, a public policy professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University, said Rezaee was issuing a warning to neighboring states rather than seeking deterrence. Barakat said many neighbors are sympathetic to Iran and that some are likely not to comply with US sanctions and will try to circumvent the new measures, adding Iran cannot afford an economic war with all partners. He warned US sanctions could "seriously backfire" on Washington, comparing potential fallout to threats to close the Strait of Hormuz.

【政治脆弱性推高歐洲多國融資成本】安聯一項利用歐洲八國每週民調數據追蹤政治脆弱性的指數大幅攀升至八年來最高水平，反映出政黨體系碎片化、選民對主流政黨的不滿、政治立場向極端陣營兩極分化以及執政能力受到削弱等因素。如今，政治脆弱性出現顯著變化（即發生“一個標準差”的變動）會使意大利10年期借款成本相對於掉期市場基準利率的利差擴大近0.5個百分點。法國的利差會因此擴大約三分之一個百分點，比利時或英國則會擴大約四分之一個百分點。自2022年以來，政治脆弱性已使意大利、法國、西班牙、比利時和英國累計利息支出增加約1,000億歐元。這平均相當於這些國家年度債務利息支出的約3%，其中意大利最高可達5%。