Iceland has voted against resuming membership talks with the European Union, public broadcaster RUV has reported, with just one constituency’s votes left to count.

It reported that 52.5% of the 188,496 votes so far counted had rejected the government’s proposal, while 47.5% had said yes. Some 9,500 votes separated them.

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s centre-left government promised to hold a referendum by 2027, but brought it forward because of international tensions, including US President Donald Trump’s threats against Greenland.

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At least 100 people have been killed in Nepal, and hundreds of tourists are missing, after a massive flash flood and mudslide on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Nepal’s foreign minister says the flood may have been caused by an earthquake triggering an avalanche.

What do we know about how it started, and the damage done?

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00:00-01:23 Intro
01:23-02:11 What happened?
02:11-02:52 Eyewitness account
02:52-03:51 What caused the flood?
03:51-04:32 What has been damaged?
04:32-05:40 How difficult is the rescue operation?
05:40-06:29 Why tourists go to Nepal
06:29-07:12 Has Nepal seen this before,
07:12-end How bad could this be?

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Seven people have died after a passenger boat capsized near northern Cyprus.

Search and rescue operations are under way to find 23 people missing, said Ünal Üstel, prime minister of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

He says 267 people were on board the vessel when it capsized, and 237 have been rescued.

The boat left from the northern Cypriot port of Kyrenia at 11:58 local time (09:58 BST) and officials said it capsized around four nautical miles into its journey to Turkey.

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Ukraine’s progress against Russian forces in its southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia has been far more limited than its successes in the north-east.

Both sides come under regular fire as they rely heavily on artillery to push forward.

The crackdown on people who do not support Russian rule in occupied areas is rising, with soldiers going door-to-door to check on who lives in each house and whether they could be drafted into fighting for Russia.

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David Cameron has travelled to Brussels hoping to persuade other European leaders to back his plan for reforming Britain’s …

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