Nepal tunnel rescue revives hopes 10 days after flood
Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris, as emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing people…
Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris, as emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing people…
The United Nations appealed Friday for $50 million to help more than 84,000 people in Nepal affected by catastrophic flooding, warning that winter was fast approaching. The August 26 floods…
Sheltering with relatives or in temporary camps, survivors of devastating floods in Nepal say they can no longer rebuild their homes after the landscape was violently transformed, leaving them focused…
Taiwan had planned an “extreme heat drill” for government officials and emergency workers to practise their response to 40C temperatures, but Thursday’s exercise was almost washed out by heavy rain.…
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The death toll from devastating floods and landslides near the Nepal-China border has risen to 750, while more than 3,000 people remain missing, as rescue operations entered a fifth day…
Across the Himalayas, rescuers are digging through thick mud and mountains of debris in a desperate race to find nearly 3,000 people missing after a devastating wall of water and…
Devastating floods in the Nepal-Tibet border region have killed at least 616 people, Nepali police said Saturday, three days after the disaster. Chinese state media had earlier confirmed seven dead,…
King Charles III said Thursday he and Queen Camilla were “heartbroken” by the flash floods and landslides at the Nepal-Tibet border, as the UK government offered £5 million ($6.8 million)…