Nepal's Toll Passes 700 While the Deals Get Signed

Nepal's flood toll passed seven hundred dead today, with three thousand still missing. The number keeps rising because the weather keeps refusing rescue crews a clear window to work. Separately, the president announced what his own team called the biggest oil deal in world history, securing US access to sixty five billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves through a private partner whose ties to Caracas's government are close enough to make hardliners on both sides uneasy. Iceland voted against even discussing EU membership. A federal judge voided the Pentagon's blacklist against Anthropic, calling the national security label invented retaliation. An identical case is still pending before a different judge, with no hearing date set yet. Spider-Man: Brand New Day posted the biggest domestic opening in box office history the same week China reopened the franchise after seven years dark. And Song Yadong knocked a man out in Shanghai for a hundred thousand dollar bonus, giving UFC a foothold in China at a fraction of the six billion dollars Saudi Arabia has spent chasing golf's audience there.