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Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The rescue of two hydropower workers who survived for nine days inside a flooded tunnel in Nepal has been described by an international tunnelling expert as a remarkable victory for human resilience, offering renewed hope to families still waiting for news of hundreds of people missing after catastrophic floods along the Nepal-Tibet border. Sanjay Shah and Kabir Maharajan...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage are facing renewed scrutiny over the party’s finances as a series of controversies surrounding political donations, personal financial arrangements and alleged attempts to navigate electoral rules continue to raise questions about transparency and accountability. The latest controversy emerged as Reform UK held its annual conference in Birmingham, where two senior party...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Home insurers across England and Wales are reporting a sharp increase in subsidence claims following the UK’s hottest summer on record, with one major insurer recording an extraordinary rise of almost 140% in claims during August. The surge has raised fresh concerns about the growing impact of hotter and drier weather on homes, foundations and household finances as...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US President Donald Trump has sought to downplay the scale and seriousness of the ongoing conflict with Iran, describing the military confrontation as “small potatoes” despite the deaths of 18 American service members and the wounding of more than 750 others. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump rejected the characterization of the conflict as...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The return of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain for a major exhibition in London has become more than a landmark cultural event. After centuries of rivalry, cooperation, conflict and reconciliation between Britain and France, the arrival of the medieval masterpiece has provided an unusually powerful symbol of renewed Franco-British friendship. French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to make the...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain’s political landscape has become so unstable in recent years that even the country’s revolving door of prime ministers has begun to look like a permanent feature of public life. For columnist and author Marina Hyde, the turbulence has produced an extraordinary mixture of political drama, social disorder, celebrity spectacle and technological absurdity. Yet beneath the humour and...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A federal judge has declined to temporarily block the Pentagon from dismissing journalists at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, allowing the US Department of Defense to proceed with the firings while a broader legal dispute over press freedom and editorial independence continues. The ruling represents a setback for three journalists who challenged the Pentagon’s actions in federal...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis from the collection of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker must be returned to his heir, an Argentine judge has ruled, bringing a decades-long search for the artwork closer to a historic resolution. The painting, Portrait of a Lady, by Italian Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, had been missing for more than...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The daughter of a British couple who died in devastating wildfires in southern Spain has demanded a full investigation after she discovered what appeared to be human bones and personal belongings inside her parents’ burned-out car weeks after authorities told her that the vehicle had been thoroughly searched. Danielle Gillam-Kirton says the discovery has left her questioning whether...

Published: 03 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has announced that he intends to seek the party’s nomination for the forthcoming byelection in Holborn and St Pancras, the London constituency being vacated by former prime minister Keir Starmer. Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, said he wanted to represent residents of the central London constituency and would focus...