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Nepal seeks new leader as army reclaims streets after protest violence
AFP, Published on 12/09/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepal's president and army sought on Friday to find a consensus interim leader to fill a political vacuum after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government and left parliament in flames.
'Just doing my job,' says record-setting Nepali climber
AFP, Published on 14/09/2022
» Summiting the world's 8,000-metre mountains is the ultimate bucket list dream for ambitious climbers, a feat managed by fewer than 50 people, and Sanu Sherpa is the first to do it twice.
Fighting climate change in the shadow of Mount Everest
AFP, Published on 11/12/2018
» EVEREST (NEPAL) - Formed in the shadow of Mount Everest, the turquoise depths of Nepal's Imja glacial lake would be a breathtaking miracle of nature to behold -- were they not a portent of catastrophic floods.
Solo Russian climber dies on 4th highest mountain
AFP, Published on 18/05/2018
» KATHMANDU - A Russian climber died just below the summit of Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak, in at least the third fatality of the spring climbing season in the Nepali Himalaya, officials said Friday.