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Nepal flood survivors reach safe areas as families await news of missing

After Nepali authorities updated their figures Saturday, the combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 676 dead and nearly 3,000 people missing.

China-Nepal floods: police officer filmed guiding people away from stricken border post

Video footage taken moments before a catastrophic mudslide hit a border post in Tibet shows how one police officer stationed there tried to guide civilians to safety. The clip, which shows the officer trying to direct people away from...

Hong Kong sets aside HK$50 million in relief fund for Nepal-Tibet flood victims

Hong Kong’s government has earmarked HK$50 million (US$6.3 million) from the Disaster Relief Fund for those affected by deadly flash floods near Nepal’s border with Tibet’s Gyirong County, which have left hundreds dead and thousands missing. Chief Executive John...

Flash floods have devastated Nepal. Climate change could make them routine

Nepal and Tibet are reeling from unprecedented floods that have killed more than 600 people. Experts tell James C. Reynolds that a warming planet could make these disasters more common and threaten water security for millions

Number of missing in Nepal, China floods soars to nearly 3,000

Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages. The number of missing soared close to...

Nepal-Tibet floods: death toll rises to 626 and number missing climbs to nearly 3,000 – latest updates

Rescue workers and military personnel have been working around the clock since Wednesday’s disaster‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in NepalChinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal...

Nepal glacial disaster and the new geography of climate risk

On August 26, the Himalayas seemed to move. An enormous mass of ice and rock broke loose near the Nepal-Tibet border, plunging into the Lhende Khola River and unleashing a wall of water, mud, boulders and debris down the...

Nepal-Tibet floods live: Death toll passes 600, nearly 3,000 people still missing

Rescuers in Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after deadly flash floods swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages. The number of missing rose to nearly 3,000...

China-Nepal floods: rescuers pull 2 survivors out of rubble near Tibet border crossing

Chinese rescuers continued searching for survivors from this week’s devastating floods along the border with Nepal as the operation passed a critical 72-hour window. Two villagers near the Gyirong border checkpoint were rescued from the rubble at around 1am...

Missing in Nepal, China floods soars past 2,400

NUWAKOT, Nepal — Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages.The number of missing soared...

Nepal-China Death Toll Hits 579; Concerns Another Disaster Is Coming

By Osama Ali Key Takeaways: Flash floods along the Nepal–China border have killed at least 579 people; more than 200 are missing in Nepal and Chinese media put 558 missing in Tibet’s Gyirong County (including 260 foreigners), with possible...

Politics Insider: Canada’s economy rebounds sharply in second quarter

And, at least 32 Canadians and permanent residents remain missing after Tibet-Nepal border floods

As The Himalayas Melt, Deadly Floods Become The New Normal

By Fabrice Robinet Key Takeaways: A Himalayan slope failure on Wednesday (registered as magnitude 5.2) sent ice, rock, and water down the Lhende Khola/Bhotekoshi system; by Friday more than 500 were reported dead in Nepal and Tibet and over 1,500...

China: Decade Of Impunity For Crimes Against Uyghurs, HRW Says

Key Takeaways: Ten years after the 2016 escalation in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says mass detention, imprisonment, surveillance, cultural and religious restrictions, travel controls, and pressure on Uyghurs abroad continue, despite Beijing’s claims of normalcy. HRW cites UN findings...

Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there

Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.

Can Beijing’s gateway plan for Tibet survive geopolitics and natural disasters?

On the windswept plains just south of Tibet’s second-largest city, the towering smart inspection systems and automated cargo gantries of a brand-new international land port gleam under the plateau’s high-altitude sun. Official road maps predict the multibillion-yuan project in...

CNA Explains: What caused the deadly Nepal-Tibet disaster?

A high-altitude collapse of rock and glacial ice sent a fast-moving mass of debris and water down narrow Himalayan valleys. Scientists are working out what triggered the collapse – and whether climate change played a role.

Commentary: Nepal‑Tibet disaster - when a crisis strikes before communities recover from the last one

If another hazard arrives before systems have recovered, it encounters a place with less resilience and a weakened infrastructure, say two researchers.

See Moments After a Glacier Collapsed, Launching Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal

Exclusive videos verified by The New York Times show the clearest view yet of the avalanche in northern Nepal near Tibet that sent a wall of water and mud coursing through river valleys below.

What lessons can be learned from the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster?

Scientists are looking into cause and possible link to climate change. 

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in BidurThe three women sat together in the army tent and wept. They cried out for their sons, their husbands, their homes. As flash floods coursed...

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, Israeli settlers in the West Bank and tributes to Dolly Parton – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...

Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages

Before-and-after images show villages, bridges and a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing washed away by devastating floodwaters.

New flood risks slow Nepal, Tibet rescue

RESCUERS plowed on with their search on Friday for survivors of deadly floods and landslides that struck Nepal and Tibet, with the threat of new torrents complicating their gargantuan task.Emergency teams have recovered 482 bodies after a tsunami-like wall...

Group of hikers from Virginia among those still missing in Nepal after deadly floods

Dozens of Americans, including community leaders from Northern Virginia, were traveling to Tibet’s sacred Mount Kailash when catastrophic flash floods struck the border region