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In Gaza, heavy rains have flooded displacement camps, with civil defence teams receiving fifteen hundred distress calls in just ten hours. Families already living in tents after being forced from their homes are now facing floodwater, compounding a humanitarian crisis that shows no sign of easing.
Meanwhile in Nepal, communities are still reckoning with the aftermath of severe flooding that damaged infrastructure and displaced thousands. Al Jazeera's one hundred and one East has been following the country's efforts to rebuild, a story about resilience in a region where natural disasters are growing more frequent and more destructive.
And on a very different note, fans of Nier Automata woke up to an unexpected surprise this week — not a good one. A routine localisation update adding Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean language support somehow ballooned the game's file size from fifty gigabytes to three hundred and sixty six gigabytes. Square Enix says it is currently investigating, which is developer speak for someone is having a very long Friday.
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