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  Media caption, Watch: A 'monsoon on steroids' - UN chief in Pakistan floods Pakistan is facing "a monsoon on steroids", the UN's secretary general has warned, after floods submerged a third of the country. Antonio Guterres urged the world to come to Pakistan's aid as he launched a $160m appeal to help the tens of millions affected in the disaster. He blamed "the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding". At least 1,136 people have been killed since June and roads, crops, homes and bridges washed away across the country. This year's record monsoon is comparable to the devastating floods of 2010 - the deadliest in Pakistan's history - which left more than 2,000 people dead. IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, Makeshift relief camps have sprung up all over Pakistan to cope with the many displaced In a video message, Mr Guterres called South Asia a "climate crisis hotspot" where people were 15 times more likely to die...

  IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES The war in Ethiopia, between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), has resumed at full scale. The route back to negotiations is uncertain at best. The two sides agree that the first shots were fired in the early morning of 24 August on the southern borders of Tigray, where it adjoins the neighbouring Amhara state at the town of Kobo. Each side blames the other for firing those shots. What is clear - from information obtained from Western diplomats - is that the Ethiopian National Defence Force and its allied Amhara militia, known as the Fano, had mobilized a huge force to that location over prior weeks. Meanwhile, mass conscription by the TPLF had swelled its ranks and it had devoted much of its resources to training and rearming, although it has denied forced recruitment. It captured a huge arsenal from the federal army in last year's fighting, and there are rumours that it had also bought new weapons from abroad. ...