Flood Toll Hits 750 as Iceland, Germany Shake Europe

In the Himalayas, the death toll from this week's flash flooding has climbed to 750 across Nepal and Tibet, with 2,500 people still missing, including 589 foreigners. Rescue teams are combing rivers and collapsed villages as authorities warn fresh flooding could hit again. The same weekend brought violence to Switzerland, where a gunman opened fire at a techno rave in Aarau early Sunday, killing a 22-year-old woman and wounding five others. Police have launched a manhunt, but the shooter's identity and motive remain unknown. European politics took two sharp turns. Icelandic voters narrowly rejected reopening EU membership talks, 52.8% to 47.2%, sinking PM Kristrun Frostadottir's push to revive talks frozen since 2013; fishing rights and sovereignty decided the vote. In Germany, the far-right AfD is polling at 42% ahead of September's Saxony-Anhalt election, on course to become the first party classified as confirmed right-wing extremist to govern a German state. Further east, Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei called on Muslim nations, especially across the Gulf and West Asia, to unite against the US and Israel as a shared enemy amid the economic standoff from the ongoing US-Iran war. And in Vietnam, SpaceX's Starlink went live, capped at 600,000 subscribers through 2030 and priced from 37 euros a month, faster internet but still bound by the state's tight controls.