Malaysia cancels haze emergency in Sarawak but warns very unhealthy air pollution levels remain. Forest fires in Indonesia shroud Borneo in toxic smoke. API peaked at 519.
Nepal holds national day of mourning for glacial flood victims. 1,398 dead, 5,500+ missing. Families pray tunnel rescuers find more alive. 'We are measured not only by the lives we save, but by the lives we refuse to abandon.'
Vandals uproot Berlin tree commemorating Pride attack victims. Maple planted in August destroyed. Rainbow bench also vandalised. 'We will replant this tree, as often as necessary.' AfD expected to win in Saxony-Anhalt.
Indian Oscar-nominated filmmaker Shaunak Sen turns camera on his cancer diagnosis. 'All That Breathes' director links pollution to his own body. New Delhi's toxic air. Surgeon as protagonist.
Blazes outpace firefighters in Indonesian Borneo. El Nino parches Southeast Asia. PM2.5 exceeds 500 micrograms, 100x WHO safe limit. 200,000 pupils sent home. 'We are exhausted. Sometimes we don't sleep.'
Nepal principal saved 900 students from catastrophic flood. School collapsed into raging torrent minutes after evacuation. 1,362 dead, 5,500+ missing across Nepal and China.
German director Wim Wenders clarifies views on film and politics at Venice. 'We are the antidote,' says Paris, Texas director after Berlin festival outcry. Filmmakers work with empathy, not without it.
US envoys discuss 'substantive plans' with Putin to end Ukraine war. Witkoff and Kushner head to Kyiv - first visit. Putin thanks Trump. Russia says confident it can achieve military goals.