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Nepal Floods Expose South Asia’s Disaster Gaps

The collapse left about 900 dead and more than 4,000 missing, while exposing weak cross-border warning and response systems in South Asia.

Summary by The Hindu
South Asia has the pieces of a regional disaster-response system, but no reliable mechanism that makes those pieces work together. Nepal’s recent floods show how quickly that gap can turn a cross-border hazard into a regional crisis.

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Five days after the devastating floods that swept through Nepal, images of the disaster continue to circulate on social media. Many are generated by artificial intelligence, while others present videos taken out of context. Why are some internet users exaggerating the situation when the real images are already so striking? Jules Boiteau explains in Info Intox.

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Hindu broke the news in Chennai, India on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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