Nepal

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What caused Nepal’s devastating flood damage and how was it contained?

Karki government has been praised for issuing early warnings and imposing road closures in response to flood forecasts.

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Video: Dozens killed in flash flooding and landslides in Nepal and India

Widespread flooding in Nepal and India has caused the deaths of at least 47 people.

Security personnel are deployed to help with the rescue efforts with helicopters and motorboats. [Handout/Nepalese army via AP]

Nepalese army personnel rescue survivors after flooding in the Jhapa district of eastern Nepal. [Handout/Nepalese army via AP]

Soldiers help people retrieve their belongings on a flooded street along the bank of the overflowing Bagmati River in Kathmandu. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

A woman wades through a flooded street along a bank of the Bagmati River. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

Torrential downpours have lashed Nepal since October 3, 2025, causing rivers to surge and leaving many areas in the Himalayan nation inundated. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

People look at the Bagmati River as it threatens to rise and flood their neighbourhoods. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

Rivers in the capital, Kathmandu, have swelled, inundating settlements. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

Army personnel carry a landslide survivor for evacuation by helicopter. [Handout/Nepalese army via AFP]

More than 350 trekkers escape blizzard-hit Everest, hundreds still stranded

Rescued trekkers reach China’s Qudang township while 200 others still face treacherous Everest conditions awaiting help.

At least 47 killed in Nepal as heavy rains trigger landslides, flash floods

Heavy rains continue to disrupt rescue operations in Himalayan nation as authorities struggle to respond to the crisis.

Police officers run away from flames as demonstrators clash with police officers during a march to mark the 57th anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Square massacre, in which students were shot dead by the military, in Mexico City, Mexico

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Demonstrators hold a banner with writing reading in Catalan "Let’s stop the genocide in Palestine, no more arms trade with Israel”" during a pro-Palestinian rally in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla after ships were intercepted by the Israeli navy, in Barcelona, Spain

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Nepal's newly appointed living goddess, Kumari Aryatara Shakya, is carried by her father as they walk towards Kumari Ghar, the temple palace where she will reside in Kathmandu. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]

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Displaced Palestinians head southwards through the central Gaza Strip after fleeing the north amid an Israeli military operation. The movement comes after Israeli forces issued a threat to Gaza City residents to move south. Israel's ongoing ground invasion has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in Gaza City. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

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Firefighters tackle the blaze after a Russian air attack that hit at Barabashovo market in Kharkiv, Ukraine,

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A man takes a bath with his daughters beside damaged structures due to a recent strong earthquake in Bogo, Cebu province, central Philippines. [Aaron Favila/AP Photo]

Drivers wait for attendees of the National Day Reception held at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. [Ng Han Guan/AP Photo]

Law enforcement officers stand amid smoke from a smoke grenade released to disperse demonstrators in front of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon, U.S

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Sudanese men guide a boat carrying goats through floodwaters in Wad Ramli village, north of Khartoum, as residents evacuate after the area was inundated by the Nile. [El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters]