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FILE: Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on 31 March 2020 in New York City. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerated trucks to makeshift morgues. Picture: AFP.

Nepal

Hong Kong to lift ban on flights from nine countries in April

By AFP

The finance hub has struggled to maintain China's zero-Covid policy during an Omicron-fuelled outbreak.

  • A statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva is pictured amid the risen water levels of River Ganga after incessant rains in Rishikesh in India's Uttrakhand state on 19 October 2021. Picture: AFP

    Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal

    Experts say that they were victims of ever-more unpredictable and extreme weather across South Asia in recent years caused by climate change and exacerbated by deforestation, damming and excessive development.

    215 days ago
  • A view of Mount Everest in Nepal. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Two foreign climbers die on Everest: expedition agency

    The Swiss climber died near the summit after reaching the top and was suffering from exhaustion; the American reached the Hillary Step but was helped back down after he suffered snow blindness and exhaustion, organisers said.

    376 days ago
  • Relatives carry the body of a victim who died due to the COVID-19 coronavirus at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on 5 May 2021. Picture: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP

    India's neighbours close borders over virus rampage

    A huge rise in numbers in the past three weeks has taken India's death toll past 230,000 and cases to over 21 million.

    382 days ago
  • A view of Mount Everest in Nepal. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Virus reaches Everest as climber tests positive

    The pandemic wiped out last year's season, but Nepal has eased quarantine rules in an effort to attract more climbers despite the difficulties of treating them if they contract the virus.

    396 days ago
  • A view of Mount Everest in Nepal. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Nepal closes Mount Everest for climbers because of coronavirus fears

    Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, gets more than four million dollars in permit fees for the world’s highest peak and other mountains every year.

    802 days ago
  • Rescue workers and bystanders gather around the wreckage of a bus following an accident in Sindhupalchowk, some 80 kilometres north-east of the capital Kathmandu, on December 15, 2019. At least 14 people died after a bus carrying pilgrims veered off a highway and rolled down a steep slope in central Nepal, officials said on 15 December, the latest deadly traffic accident in the Himalayan nation. Picture: AFP

    14 killed in Nepal pilgrimage bus crash

    Police said the bus carrying 32 passengers plunged 70 metres onto a lower stretch of the winding road in Sindhupalchowk district, around 80 kilometres north-east of the capital Kathmandu.

    890 days ago
  • Hindu devotees arrive ahead of Gadhimai Festival in Baryarpur, 160 km south of the Kathmandu, on 2 December 2019. Picture: AFP

    Nepal prepares for mass animal sacrifice despite outcry

    The sacrifices, set to begin on Tuesday, take place every five years in Bariyarpur village close to the Indian border, in honour of the Hindu goddess of power.

    903 days ago
  • Dozens killed in South Asia monsoon rains

    The annual monsoon rains in South Asia have claimed the lives of dozens of people in floods and landslides across Nepal, Bangladesh and north-eastern India.

    1043 days ago
  • Locals gather concrete fragments and heavy bags wrapped in nets to build a dam as floodwaters flow from the north into the state of Indian eastern state of Bihar near Muzaffarpur on 13 July 2019. Picture: AFP

    At least 50 dead in Nepal's monsoon

    Northeast India has also been hit by floods with 11 deaths recorded as rivers burst their banks.

    1045 days ago
  • Saray Khumalo climbs Mount Everest. Picture: Summits with a purpose Facebook page

    Saray Khumalo expected to touch down in SA on Monday

    Khumalo made history over a week ago becoming the first black African woman to reach the peak of the highest mountain in the world.

    1093 days ago
  • A view of Mount Everest in Nepal. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    'Traffic jam' on Everest as two more climbers die reaching summit

    More than 200 climbers were taking advantage of clear weather on Wednesday to attempt to summit from both Nepal and China, but teams had to line up for hours to reach the top, risking frostbite and altitude sickness.

    1096 days ago
  • South African mountaineer Saray Khumalo in Nepal during her attempt to summit Mount Everest. Picture: Summits with a purpose Facebook page

    Everest search and recovery operations delay Saray Khumalo's return to SA

    Eleven people are believed to have died on the mountain in the past few weeks.

    1098 days ago
  • FILE: Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa, 48, who broke his own world record for the most Everest summits, gestures after arriving in Tribhuvan airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on 20 May 2018. Picture: AFP

    Sherpa climbs Everest twice in a week for record 24th

    Last year he ascended Everest for the 22nd time, breaking the previous record of 21 summits he shared with two other Sherpa climbers, both of whom have retired.

    1099 days ago
  • FILE: Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa, 48, who broke his own world record for the most Everest summits, gestures after arriving in Tribhuvan airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on 20 May 2018. Picture: AFP

    Sherpa climbs Mount Everest for record 23rd time

    Acharya said Kami, who goes by his first name, reached the top at 7.50 am and is now descending to lower camps.

    1104 days ago
  • A view of Mount Everest in Nepal. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Three killed in aircraft runway accident near Everest

    The accident happened at Lukla airport which is the main gateway to the Everest region and is reputed to be one of the most difficult in the world for landings and take-offs.

    1136 days ago
  • Nepali soldiers carry out belongings from a damaged home in Nepal's southern Bara district near Birgunj on 1 April 2019, the morning after a rare spring storm. Picture: AFP.

    27 killed, hundreds injured, in Nepal storm

    Five children were among the dead, the home ministry said, as rescuers battled to get relief supplies to the region and evacuate the injured.

    1148 days ago
  • FILE: Nepali rescue workers gather around the debris of an airplane that crashed near the international airport in Kathmandu on 12 March, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Pilot had 'emotional breakdown' before deadly crash, Nepal probe panel says

    Having missed the runway, the crew was flying very low north of it in an incorrect position near hilly and mountainous terrain around the airport, it said.

    1211 days ago
  • A view of the flag of the United Nations in front of United Nations Headquarters in New York. Picture: United Nations.

    UN urges Nepal to focus on war crimes victims as probes languish

    Nepal established two commissions in 2015 to probe abuses by government forces and Maoist rebels during the civil war that left 17,000 dead and others missing without a trace.

    1215 days ago
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