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News Articles: Nepal

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The race to protect people from dangerous glacial lakes

An estimated 15 million people are threatened by floods that happen when glaciers melt rapidly. Nepal's Himalayan communities are on the front lines.

April 19, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Locals watch the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan.15, 2023. A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reports. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members.

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  • Asia

A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing dozens

Rescuers are scouring the crash site for survivors, and Nepal has declared Monday a day of national mourning.

January 15, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Locals watch the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan.15, 2023. A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reports. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members.

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  • Asia

A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 32

A plane carrying 72 people crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.

January 15, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Anish Adhikari, now 26, worked construction jobs in Qatar for 33 months in the lead-up to the World Cup. In this 2021 photo, he poses inside the new Lusail stadium, which he helped build and which will host the World Cup final on Dec. 18. Adhikari says the Nepali agent who got him the job misled him about working conditions in Qatar: "They sell a dream that's not reality."

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  • Middle East

Death and dishonesty: Stories of two workers who built the World Cup stadiums in Qatar

Vinod Kumar of India and Anish Adhikari of Nepal are among the many migrant workers who helped build the stadiums. Adhikari says he was misled about working conditions. Kumar died on the job.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Students at the Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery School in Beding take a break to play volleyball in the afternoon sun.

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  • Climate

'It could just sweep us away': This school is on the front lines of climate change

Climate change is an everyday reality for students and teachers living in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. At one school, they are trying to learn more about the forces that could upend their lives.

November 13, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Ryan Kellman
Hilaree Nelson of Telluride, Colo., left, and James Morrison of Tahoe, Calif., raise their fists in October 2018 as the pair arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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  • Sports

A famed U.S. extreme skier's body is recovered in Nepal

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the summit of 26,775-foot Mount Manaslu on Monday when she fell off the mountain

September 28, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A team of climbers prepare to leave for rescue operations from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 29, 2022, following reports of a Tara Air flight that disappeared.

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  • Asia

A plane carrying 22 passengers was found crashed on a mountain in central Nepal

Photos of the crash, released by the army, show the plane's parts scattered across a mountainside.

May 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Married at 15, Chakraman Shreshta Balami fulfilled his dying father's wish by getting married — at age 15. He had to give up his dream of becoming a doctor. Now the vice principal of Sri Bhavani government school, he campaigns against child marriage — but even his son was married as a teenager. Above, he poses with a grandchild.

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  • Family

Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage

The U.N. issued its first report on the plight of child grooms. And the pandemic has only made things worse. Here's a report from Nepal, where 1 in 10 boys marry young.

January 02, 2022
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  • Photos and text by Stephanie Sinclair
The menstrual hut.

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  • Global Health

A Controversial Solution To Menstrual Exile: Building Better Menstrual Huts

There's long been opposition to the practice of forcing a woman on her period to menstrual exile in a hut, which can be unsafe and unsanitary. One charity has a new interim response: upgrade the huts.

August 30, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
Villagers wait to board a bus to head home in the wake of government-imposed restrictions relating to COVID-19 in Kathmandu valley.

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  • Global Health

From Remote Villages To Mt. Everest Base Camp, COVID Hits Nepal Hard

Health workers must overcome great challenges to battle one of the world's most severe COVID-19 outbreaks, which stretch from villages without hospitals to the top of the world's highest mountain.

June 05, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Tents of mountaineers are pictured Monday at the Everest Base Camp in Nepal.

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  • Asia

COVID-19 Reaches Mount Everest As Nepal Struggles With Record Infections

Climbers are reporting an outbreak at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, where hundreds of climbers assemble as they prepare for summiting the world's tallest peak.

May 05, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The official height of Mount Everest has been the subject of intense negotiations between Nepal and China. The revised number both countries have agreed upon: 8,849 meters, or about 29,032 feet.

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  • Asia

Everest Gets A Growth Spurt As China, Nepal Revise Official Elevation Upward

After years of surveys and calculations, the countries said Tuesday that the world's highest peak now stands about 29,032 feet above sea level — more than 2 feet taller than the previous consensus.

December 08, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer

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