By Sarita Chaganti Singh

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Nepal plans to rebuild an early-warning system for landslides on part of its border with China,installing seismicsensors, cameras and a satellite link, two Nepali government sources told Reuters,a week after a glacial flood killed more than 1,000.

The equipment is being set up at Timure, a border settlement in Nepal's Rasuwa district on the sameriver corridor along the border with China where a collapsing glacier sent a gigantic wall of mud, water and rock hurtling through mountain valleys.

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by Israeli settler militants and army troops on their village in the occupied West Bank, local officials and the Palestinian health ministry said, amid an uptick in violence by Jewish settlers in the territory.

The Palestinian health ministry said the two youths were ages 16 and 19 while a local official told Palestinian news agency WAFA they died in al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah.

By Nandita Bose, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Top aides to President Donald Trump are pushing to keep the Iran war from escalating before November's midterm elections to staunch Republicanelectoral losses, four people familiar with the discussions said, a strategy already under strain as the U.S. and Iran exchangedback-and-forth attacks overnight.

By Parisa Hafezi and Bo Erickson

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Fears of renewed escalation gripped the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States and Iran exchanged their biggest barrage since July, with Washington striking Iran's southern coast and Tehran firing atU.S. bases across the region.

With the U.S. threatening further strikes,Iran accused Washington of hitting a wedding party, killing four people and wounding dozens. Its health minister later said 18 people in total had been killed and 108 injured in the latest wave ofU.S. strikes.

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long" after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a rocket that drops mines and the U.S. had destroyed it. He also said Iran had been working to restore its radar and missile systems, which were also targeted in the U.S. strikes.

MOSCOW/LONDON/DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Russia vowed to head off any disruption to civil aviation on Wednesday after a warning by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that its drones had made Russian airspace dangerous to use.

Zelenskiy warned airlines and insurance firms on Tuesday that the presence of Ukrainian drones as Ukraine responded to Russian attacks meant "the war started by Russia is closing its own skies". He said he was not targeting civil aviation.

By Alexander Dziadosz and Shi Bu

CAIRO/BEIJING, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Middle Eastern nations to oppose external interference and consider reshaping the region's security order during a visit to Egypt on Wednesday, as Beijing seeks to expand its influence amid the U.S. war against Iran.

Xi's first trip to the Middle East in four years comes as U.S. partners in the region reassess their strategic relationships after months of conflict that have disrupted trade, shaken economies and raised questions about Washington's long-term role.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as "Trump Strait" despite ongoing clashes with Iran -- then hours later implied he wasn't serious.

Trump has made a series of geographical name changes to international bodies of water in his second term, at least partly with the aim of trolling other countries.

The latest suggestion came as Trump insisted the US had full control of the crucial waterway, even as fresh clashes raged there with Iran.

CAIRO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed in a bus accident on Egypt's Dahab-Nuweibaa road in South Sinai on Wednesday, the health ministry said.

A number of Jordanians were on the bus and initial information indicated some were killed and injured, Jordan's foreign ministry said.

The area along the Red Sea coast is popular with tourists.

Last month, 15 people were killed and 32 injured in a road accident in Egypt's Ismailia governorate.

(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah and Mohammed Ezz; Editing by Tom Hogue and Andrew Heavens)

By Ali Kucukgocmen

ISTANBUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Tankers and cargo ships are transiting the Bosphorus strait adorned with nets, water tanks and tyres to try to fend off growing Russian and Ukrainian drone strikes in the Black Sea, according to security experts and video obtained by Reuters.

In a stark illustration of the risks, the abandoned Russian-flagged cargo ship Omskiy-107 - its command deck burned out - drifted from Russian waters to a northern Istanbul beach east of the Bosphorus, one of the world's busiest shipping routes.