More than 800 people were killed in one of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes, authorities said on Monday, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they were plucked from rubble being combed for survivors.

The disaster will further stretch the resources of nation already grappling with humanitarian crises, from a sharp drop in aid to a huge pushback of its citizens from neighbouring countries.

The quake of magnitude 6 killed at least 800 people and another 2,500 were injured in Kunar province, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a press conference in the capital Kabul. While he updated the casualty count for Kunar, he noted that the toll of 12 dead and 255 injured in Nangarhar province had not changed.

In Kabul, health authorities said rescuers were racing to reach remote hamlets dotting an area with a long history of earthquakes and floods.

At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, leaders representing over half of humanity signaled the rise of a multipolar world order. As China, Russia, India, and Central Asia push new financial and trade systems, the West risks being left on the sidelines.

When the leaders of China, Russia, India, and several Central Asian states gathered in Tianjin last week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, the world should have paid far closer attention. Collectively, the countries represented at the table account for more than half of humanity, command immense reserves of natural resources, and increasingly drive a larger share of global GDP. This is not a peripheral coalition but a core pillar of the international system in the making.

Yet much of the Western press treated the gathering as little more than a diplomatic sideshow, overshadowed by domestic political debates or the latest updates from NATO. That was a mistake. What unfolded in Tianjin was not just another regional summit. It was the clearest indication yet that the unipolar world of U.S. primacy, which dominated the decades after the Cold War, is giving way to a new and contested multipolar order.

America's cold civil war has created a crisis of identity. A nation with little common ground and no unifying traditions will struggle to hold together under the weight of mass immigration and multicultural dogma. Are we fated to fracture into enclaves, each clinging to its own customs while the republic itself dissolves?

In this essay, Iraq native Luma Simms shares her perspective as an immigrant with a clear sense of what constitutes American identity. She argues that mass immigration and multiculturalism have become a destructive feedback loop, one that weakens both newcomers and natives alike. Contending that American immigration must slow long enough to rebuild a thick cultural identity, Simms insists that only then will immigrants have a true nation to join.

In 1984, when my parents were sworn in as American citizens, I distinctly remember their differing reactions: My father was thrilled to be counted as a citizen of the country that had taken us in, excited for the opportunity to participate in civic life and to enter into the peoplehood of America. My mother, on the other hand, was grateful for the security of citizenship, but cherished the freedom to continue on as an Iraqi.

I recall my mother coming through the front door triumphant, telling me of the encouragement she'd been given — alongside the other freshly-minted Americans — to hold tight to their original cultures and their long-held traditions. As long as we live in fidelity with America's laws, she proclaimed, we're free to stay Iraqis. She was beaming.

I harrumphed in response. Herein was a great point of contention between my mother and me, even when I was young: the question of what it meant to be an American. She had come home happy that day, not only because she had become a citizen of a great nation, but because those in charge had confirmed her priors of what that honor truly meant.

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his posts on X.

He was arrested after arriving on a flight from the US, and said in an online Substack article that officials then became concerned for his health after taking his blood pressure, and took him to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police said that a man in his 50s was arrested on 1 September at Heathrow Airport and taken to hospital, adding his condition "is neither life-threatening nor life-changing" , and he was bailed "pending further investigation".

Linehan said in an online article on Substack that his bail condition stipulates he is "not to go on Twitter" and that his arrest related to three posts on X from April, on his views about challenging "a trans-identified male" in "a female-only space".

The BBC, being the echo-chamber MSM 'news outlet' that it is, didn't include the link to Linehan's Substack report about what happened to him. So, here it is:

I just got arrested again

Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed. At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocent snafu that makes air travel such a joy. But in hindsight, it was clear I'd been flagged. Someone, somewhere, probably wearing unconvincing make-up and his sister/wife's/mum's underwear, had made a phone call.

The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two — five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up...

At least 1,000 people are feared dead in war-torn Sudan following a catastrophic landslide which has wiped out an entire village.

The disaster struck in the settlement in Tarasin following torrential downpours in late August. Days of heavy rain loosened the soil, triggering the collapse of the slopes of the Marrah Mountains.

On Sunday, families who had sought refuge after leaving their homes due to the on-going war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, were crushed to death.

Sudan Liberation Movement leader Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour made an urgent appeal to the United Nations and international aid agencies for their help to recover the bodies.

He said: "Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand people. Only one person survived."

This follow-up to our earlier report, Houston, We Have a Problem, identifies a new and deeply concerning signal: excess infant and child mortality in those who neither contracted Covid-19 nor received the vaccine themselves, but whose parents bore prior mRNA exposure. The evidence points to two neglected risks — teratogenic effects passed in utero and transgenerational epigenetic effects transmitted through germline biology — together forming a warning of historic consequence for generations yet unborn.

We again invoke the Apollo 13 crew's now-immortal phrase, "Houston, we have a problem," as the title-thematic of this article — offered as a direct continuation of our earlier blockbuster report, Houston, We Have a Problem. That first analysis marked the earliest significant identification of morbidity and mortality impacts associated with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. It stood as a "shot heard around the world," revealing excess non-Covid natural-cause mortality across multiple ICD-coded categories documented within the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Much as thalidomide once forced medicine to reckon with teratogenic risk, these findings underscored the ethical necessity of considering systemic, population-wide harms that may only emerge through rigorous epidemiological tracking.

An Israeli airstrike killed the prime minister of Yemen's rebel-controlled government, the Iran-backed Houthi militant group said Saturday.

Ahmed al-Rawahi was killed Thursday alongside other ministers in a strike on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the rebels said in a statement.

"We declare the martyrdom of the fighter Ahmed Ghalib Al-Rahawi, Prime Minister in the Government of Change and Construction, along with a number of his fellow ministers," it said.

Al-Rahawi, who had served as prime minister of the Houthi-led government since 2024, was killed during a government workshop evaluating "its activities and performance during a year of its work," the statement added.

Following his death, Houthi President Mahdi Al-Mashat appointed Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed Muftah, the first deputy prime minister, to serve as acting prime minister.

Director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, sat down for an extended interview with ZeroHedge. Bhattacharya, long known as one of the fiercest critics of lockdown orthodoxy, has gone from blacklisted dissenter to running the world's largest biomedical research agency. He carries into his new post a distrust of entrenched power, a skepticism of politicized science, and an insistence that free inquiry — not censorship — must guide American health policy.

What follows is a candid conversation, in Bhattacharya's own words, on censorship, woke politics in research, the threat of bioweapons, and why he believes science cannot exist without free speech.

Budapest must urgently decide the future of its relations with Ukraine, the EU, and NATO.

The recent Ukrainian attack on the Druzhba pipeline — vital for the oil supply of Hungary and Slovakia — marks a turning point in the geopolitical conflict in Eastern Europe. The strike was confirmed by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, with commander Robert Brovdi publicly celebrating the act of energy sabotage. Far from an isolated incident, this was a deliberate act of aggression against EU member states that have pursued a sovereign foreign policy contrary to NATO's warmongering agenda.

The attack was not merely military. It was political, economic, and — above all — symbolic. By targeting the core infrastructure that sustains Hungary and Slovakia, Kiev is sending a clear message: dissent within the EU will not be tolerated. Budapest and Bratislava's opposition to sending weapons to Ukraine and denouncing illegal sanctions against Russia has made them, in practice, targets of the Ukrainian nationalist regime.

Budapest responded firmly. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó did not hesitate to call the attack "outrageous and unacceptable." But Kiev's arrogance remains unshaken. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga not only dismissed Hungary's criticisms but also claimed that the blame lies with Moscow, demanding that Hungary abandon its "dependence" on Russian energy. This is a perverse inversion of reality, typical of the Zelensky regime, propped up by Washington, London, and Brussels.

Russia has no use for the EU's illusions anymore.

From a theatrical point of view, Monday's Washington summit between US President Donald Trump and Western Europe's leaders was a vivid spectacle. Each official played their role, some with greater skill than others. But behind the carefully staged performance, the real story emerged: the region's inability to act as a political entity in its own right.

Contrary to media spin, the meeting was not about Ukraine. Attempts to resolve the crisis continue, but its outcome will ultimately be decided not in Brussels or Berlin, but by non-European powers. The real lesson from Washington lay in the display of Western Europe's dependence.