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Newly opened Nepal airport didn’t have functioning instrument landing system, official says
A French investigator takes a photo of the wreckage of a passenger plane at the crash site, in Pokhara, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan.18, 2023. Nepalese authorities are returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and are sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country's deadliest air accident in 30 years. The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, killing all 72 aboard.(AP Photo/Yunish Gurung)
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Families mourn plane crash victims in Nepal as data box sent to France for analysis
Family members mourn the death of a victim of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Rohit Giri NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board to participate in Nepal plane crash investigation
People watch as wreckage from a plane crash is lifted from a gorge in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday, a day after a plane crashed while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. Rescue workers rappelled down a 300-meter (984 feet) gorge to continue the search. Two more bodies have been found Monday morning. (AP Photo/Krishna Mani Baral)
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Flight data, cockpit voice recorders retrieved from plane crash site in Nepal
Rescuers stand by wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to a newly opened airport in the tourist town of Pokhara. (AP Photo/Anish Bhattarai)
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Nepal mourns after deadly plane crash kills at least 66
Rescue teams work to retrieve bodies from the wreckage at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Krishna Mani Baral NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Nepal’s ex-guerrilla chief set to become new prime minister
FILE- Leader of communist party Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal greets the gathering after announcing his resignation as prime minister, in line with an agreement made with his coalition partner party, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. The leader of former communist rebels has become Nepal's new prime minister with the support from his ex-opponent and other smaller political parties. The announcement was made by the office of President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Sunday after the Maoist communist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal met her to stake his claim for the prime minister following last month's elections. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, file)
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Charles Sobhraj, convicted killer from Netflix’s ‘The Serpent,’ arrives in France from Nepal
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo by Atish PATEL / AFP) (Photo by ATISH PATEL/AFP via Getty Images)
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French serial killer Charles Sobhraj who killed Canadian, American backpackers freed from prison in Nepal
Police officers escort Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as 'the Serpent', accused of killing over 20 young Western backpackers across Asia, to the Department of Immigration after he was released from prison, following an order of Nepal's Supreme Court, in Kathmandu, Nepal December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Chandra Bahadur Ale
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Dogs get their day at Hindu festival dedicated to animals in Nepal
People gather to worship a dog at Sneha’s Care, a shelter for street dogs, during the Kukur Tihar or the festival of dogs as part of Tihar celebration in Lalitpur, Nepal October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Plane wreckage found in Nepal mountains; 21 bodies recovered
Ambulance carrying the bodies of victims of the Tara Air passenger plane, that crashed with 22 people on board while on its way to Jomsom, heads towards the morgue from the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Wreckage of plane with 22 on board found in Nepal mountains
Family members and relatives of passengers on board the Twin Otter aircraft operated by Tara Air, weep outside the airport in Pokhara on May 29, 2022. - A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on May 29, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nepali police clash with protesters opposed to U.S. aid grant
A demonstrator hurls back a tear gas towards the police during a protest against the $500 million U.S. infrastructure grant under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) near the parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Canadian cricketers defeat Germany at ICC T20 World Cup qualifier
Canada cricket captain Navneet Dhaliwal is shown in a handout photo. Dhaliwal will captain Canada at the ICC 2022 T20 World Cup Qualifier later this month in Oman. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Cricket Canada *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Nepal makes short work of Canadian cricketers at ICC T20 World Cup qualifier
Canadian batsmen Mihir Patel swings in an undated handout photo. A COVID outbreak has sidelined the Canadian team at the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Cricket Canada, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Climate change is putting more girls in Nepal at risk of child marriage
Rajesh Sada, 16, and his wife, Punita, 15, in Gorgama, Nepal on Saturday, June 1, 2019. “I don’t think anything is wrong with child marriage,” Rajesh said recently. “It happens everywhere here. It is an expectation.” Nepal’s government is moving forward with a campaign to eradicate child marriage, but the challenges are daunting, as activists say the marriages are increasing in some villages. (Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times)
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At least 43 people dead after heavy rains trigger landslides, flash floods in Nepal
An airlines employee pulls a trolly through the premises of a flooded domestic airport after heavy rains in Biratnagar on October 20, 2021, as the death toll from days of flooding and landslides in India and Nepal crossed 100. (Photo by Lila Ballav Ghimire / AFP) (Photo by LILA BALLAV GHIMIRE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Bus crash in western Nepal district leaves 28 dead, 15 hurt
Police and army personnel carry an injured passenger to a hospital in Nepalgunj, some 650 km west of Kathmandu on October 12, 2021, after being airlifted from Mugu region. - At least 28 people were killed and more than a dozen injured on October 12 after a packed passenger bus plunged off a road in a hilly region in northwestern Nepal, officials said. The accident in the remote Mugu region happened at around 12.30pm local time (0645 GMT) after a puncture to one of the front tyres, district official Rom Bahadur Mahat told AFP. (Photo by KRISHNA ADHIKARI / AFP) (Photo by KRISHNA ADHIKARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Centuries-old relic stolen from Nepalese temple at centre of diplomatic dilemma with Australia
An 800-year-old relic that was stolen from one of Nepal’s sacred temples in the Kathmandu Valley and ended up in an Australian art gallery has become a diplomatic dilemma for the two countries, as a social media campaign in Nepal is ramping up efforts to bring it home. Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Ratneshwar Temple, Sulima Square, Patan Temple strut (tunala) depicting a tree deity (yakshi), 1200s Bequest of Alex Biancardi, 2000 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -- MANDATORY CREDIT: Jenni Carter / Bequest of Alex Biancardi (2000) / Art Gallery of New South Wales
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COVID-19 crisis worsens Nepal’s hunger epidemic
*premium access download* KATHMANDU, NEPAL - 2021/06/04: A woman carries her child while receiving relief goods distributed by the community service center during the Prohibitory order due to a Second wave of the Coronavirus. (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Eleven people killed in Nepal floods, 25 missing
Partially submerged houses are seen as flood water from the swollen Melamchi river enters the village in Sindhupalchok, Nepal, June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Nepal president dissolves Parliament, elections set for November
Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, right, speaks during a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, April 29, 2019. (Madoka Ikegami/Pool Photo via AP)
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Nepal battling devastating COVID-19 crisis as cases grow ‘out of control’
Nepal army personnel and health workers wearing PPE suits (Personal Protection Equipment) transfers the body of a patient who died of Covid-19 coronavirus into an ambulance outside a mortuary in Kathmandu on May 18, 2021. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)
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COVID-19 reaches Mount Everest, raising fears of serious outbreak among climbers and locals
In this picture taken on May 1, 2021 an expedition base camp staff wearing a facemask walks around Everest base camp, some 140 Km northeast of Kathmandu. - A coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has seen dozens of people evacuated by helicopter from the foot of the world's highest peak, derailing Nepal's plans for a record climbing season. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) / To go with 'Nepal-health-virus-everest-mountaineering' FOCUS by Paavan MATHEMA (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)
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China to draw ‘separation line’ on peak of Mount Everest
Mount Everest in a Nov. 12, 2015, file photo.
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Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time
Mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa at the Everest base camp, on May 2, 2021.
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Nepal orders schools to close for four days as air pollution hits alarming levels
A packed street during a smoggy day in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 30, 2021.
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Nepal’s smart farming program helps villages cope with impacts of climate change
A Nepalese farmer drinks rice beer as she takes a break while working in a paddy field on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Kathmandu valley, once a fertile land for farming, has become the fastest growing metropolitan areas in South Asia, according to the World Bank. Agricultural produce has become scarce in Kathmandu Valley with limited farming land available and the new generation seeking city-based employment. (AP Photo/NIranjan Shrestha)
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Severe flooding in South Asia displaces more than 9.6 million people
Rickshaw pullers make their way through a water-logged street after a heavy downpour in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2020.
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Floods in India, Nepal displace nearly four million people
National Disaster Response Force personnel inspect the area where houses collapsed into a canal due to heavy early morning rains, in New Delhi, India, on July 19, 2020.
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At least 213 people killed by floods, landslides across South Asia over past month
People walk through flood waters in Sunamgong, Bangladesh, on July 15, 2020.
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Floods, landslides kill 23 in Nepal, dozens missing, thousands displaced
Residents and rescue workers inspect the area outside a house damaged by a landslide and the swell of the Thado-Koshi river due to heavy rains in Jambu village of Sindhupalchok district, some 80 kms northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal on July 9, 2020.
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Nepal families face hunger, skip meals as pandemic decimates economy
Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu peels potatoes to cook as her five-year-old daughter Masim Limbu enters the room in Kathmandu, Nepal, on June 25, 2020. More than 56 percent of Nepal's estimated 5.4 million households receive remittances that are a vital lifeline for thousands of families, who are without any other source of income, according to official figures.