#Nepal

Rescue teams raced on Wednesday to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal’s mountains, offering one of the last hopes of finding survivors ...

Nepali rescuers built temporary bridges to reach remote areas and dug through the ruins of hydropower projects in the Himalayas to rescue close to 300 trapped workers, nearly a week after ...

Cyprus will give €200,000 in humanitarian aid to Nepal through its CyprusAidprogramme, the foreign ministry announced on Monday, to help address the aftermath of catastrophic flash floods that struck last week. ...

Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, worked overnight to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of ...

Nepal and China resumed rescue operations that had been suspended briefly in the flood-hit Himalayas on Friday after risks from an overflowing lake were found to be manageable, easing fears ...

China is racing to reduce the risk of more flooding at the disaster-stricken border crossing linking the Tibet region to Nepal after hundreds were killed in a flash flood on ...

A deadly flash flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said he was “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life and devastation caused by the floods on the Nepal-China border.” “Our thoughts are with the ...

Nearly 1,500 people including at least 800 foreigners are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river, ...

There have so far been no reports of Cypriots being present in the area of the Himalayas affected by a landslide, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Foreign ministry spokesman ...

A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side ...

Nepali rescue workers have spotted five bodies at a site where the same number of climbers went missing last year, officials said on Saturday. Three foreign climbers – an Italian Canadian, ...

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah was sworn in as prime minister of Nepal on Friday, tasked with restoring political stability and creating jobs in the poor Himalayan nation long troubled by fragile ...

The Nepalis in Cyprus tend to stay below the public radar. Perhaps it’s not surprising as they come mostly as domestic workers and are kept out of sight, busy ...

Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel has dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5 following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country’s ...

Former chief justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as Nepal’s interim prime minister on Friday, becoming the first woman to lead the country after deadly anti-graft protests forced Prime ...

Approximately 90 Nepalese residents of Paphos gathered peacefully on Wednesday at the city’s town hall square to honour the victims of the recent mass anti-government protests in Nepal. Holding candles, ...

Soldiers guarded Nepal’s parliament and patrolled deserted streets on Wednesday amid a curfew in the capital Kathmandu, after two days of deadly anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister K.P. ...

Anti-corruption demonstrators in Nepal defied an indefinite curfew on Tuesday, holding demonstrations and shouting slogans against Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, a day after 19 people died in violent protests ...

At least 38 people have been killed in Nepal since early on Friday as persistent downpours triggered more flooding and landslides, closing major roads and disrupting domestic air travel, officials said ...

At least 18 people were killed when a small plane crashed and caught fire while it was taking off from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, officials said. The plane was ...

Landslides in Nepal swept two buses with at least 65 passengers on board into a river on Friday, while landslides elsewhere in the mountainous country killed at least 10 people, police said. ...

Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck western Nepal on Friday, Nepal’s National Seismological Centre reported as witnesses said it caused houses in the area to collapse and buildings in New Delhi, ...