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  "id": 3874476,
  "title": "Fire and Rescue Department ready to deploy Storm team to Nepal if instructed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/fire-and-rescue-department-ready-to-deploy-storm-team-to-nepal-if",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T03:04:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/08/1520443/fire-and-rescue-department-ready-deploy-storm-team-nepal-if-instructed"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "PUTRAJAYA: The Fire and Rescue Department is ready to deploy its elite Special Tactical Operation and Rescue Malaysia (Storm) team to Nepal to assist in disaster relief operations if instructed by the government.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Malaysian Fire Dept ready to deploy specialist rescue team to Nepal as nine hikers remain uncontactable",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/malaysian-fire-dept-ready-to-deploy-specialist-rescue-team-to-nepal",
        "published": "2026-08-28T03:30:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "‘Don’t need help’: Nepal declines foreign rescue teams as flood death toll nears 500",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/dont-need-help-nepal-declines-foreign-rescue-teams-as-flood-death",
        "published": "2026-08-28T04:05:49.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Fire Department to plead guilty over failures during fatal blaze",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/fire-department-to-plead-guilty-over-failures-during-fatal-blaze",
        "published": "2026-08-28T04:49:50.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Fire Department to plead guilty over failures during fatal blaze",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/fire-department-to-plead-guilty-over-failures-during-fatal-blaze-3890598",
        "published": "2026-08-28T04:49:50.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Live Mint",
        "title": "Nepal flash floods: Why Kathmandu declined foreign rescue teams and what were lessons from 2015 earthquake",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nepal-flash-floods-why-kathmandu-declined-foreign-rescue-teams-and",
        "published": "2026-08-28T04:52:59.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}