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August 2, 2026
Morning digest8 stories
Purja killed in avalanche, DR Congo's worst Ebola outbreak
The night brought two deaths on a very different scale. In Pakistan, an avalanche killed Nirmal Purja, the mountaineer who in 2019 climbed all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks in 189 days; his company confirmed the news. Meanw…
