World this week

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Intense rains have left at least 34 people dead after lashing parts of Pakistan and India and triggering flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. Over 200,000 people in Pakistan have been displaced, and the shrine of the founder of the Sikh religion has been submerged. Forecasters say rain will continue across the region this week. Heavy downpours and flash floods in the Himalayan region have killed nearly 100 people in August.
Part of a mountainside in Indian-controlled Kashmir's Jammu region collapsed onto a popular Hindu pilgrimage route following heavy rains in the Katra area late Tuesday. Devotees had been trekking to reach the hilltop temple, which is one of the most visited shrines in northern India, officials said. The bodies of most of the pilgrimage victims were recovered from under the debris, according to disaster management official Mohammed Irshad, who said at least 18 other people were injured and transported to hospitals.
Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday (Aug. 26) that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. Public broadcaster DR said Danish government and security sources which it didn't name, as well as unidentified sources in Greenland and the U.S., believe that at least three American nationals with connections to Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in the territory.
One of those people allegedly compiled a list of U.S.-friendly Greenlanders, collected names of people opposed to Trump and got locals to point out cases that could be used to cast Denmark in a bad light in American media. Two others have tried to nurture contacts with politicians, businesspeople and locals, according to the report. The White House did not offer an immediate comment.
Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza killed five journalists Monday, according to health officials, including one who days earlier had reported for The Associated Press on children being treated for starvation at the same facility. Two strikes hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in quick succession, medical officials said. In videos, journalists and rescue workers can be seen rushing to the scene of the first one, before a massive explosion hits an exterior staircase where journalists are often stationed.
In all, 20 people were killed, according to Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the Gaza Health Ministry's records department. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the strike was a "tragic mishap" and that the military was investigating. "Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilians," his office said in a statement. Israeli media reported that Israeli troops fired two artillery shells at the hospital, targeting a Hamas surveillance camera on the roof.
The partial return of UN inspectors to Iran for the first time since Israel and the US attacked Iran's nuclear sites were met with protests by officials in Tehran, who claim the strict preconditions they set have been breached. Some even described the return as criminal. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, tried to quell the backlash by saying the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency would not be visiting any of the bombed sites and that discussions about these were still to be had.
He said the return had been endorsed by Iran's supreme national security council and that the inspectors would be allowed to visit the Bushehr nuclear site to oversee refuelling only - a role required by the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA, confirmed that inspectors were "back in Iran". Iranian MPs complained that the readmission breached the terms of a law passed in July that banned the watchdog's return in the wake of the Israeli attack on Iran.
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