CIA Warns Moscow as Nepal Flood Toll Hits 359

CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly flew to Moscow and warned Russian intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin against any attack on NATO, as US intelligence reportedly detected signs of preparations for escalation amid Russian threats to Britain and the Baltic states. Meanwhile the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster kept growing: BBC Verify traced the destruction with satellite images and verified video as the death toll climbed to 359, with over 1,300 people still missing, including 33 British nationals, among them a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. UK PM Andy Burnham pledged 5 million pounds in emergency aid. By evening Norway's royal family had gathered at the bedside of King Harald V, 89, hospitalised in an extremely serious condition with haemolytic anaemia; Crown Prince Haakon took over regency duties. Britain also faced grim news at home: over 200 extra police were sent to Teesside after a crash killed seven, including two officers, and a house fire killed two more, while in Massachusetts a jury began deliberating whether Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children, had postpartum psychosis. Elsewhere, Infantino faced criminal proceedings in Switzerland over a FIFA World Cup stake sale, jellyfish forced a French nuclear plant to shut four reactors, the Champions League draw pitted PSG against City, Villa and Barcelona, and Optimus Prime's voice actor Peter Cullen died at 85.