An 85-year-old mountain climber from Nepal died on Saturday while climbing Mount Everest. My Bahadur Sherchan died in a base camp. He tried to write the record of the oldest climber of the highest mountain in the world on his name.
The famous Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck has fatalized at a Himalayan expedition in Nepal. The 40-year-old extreme athlete, who had the nickname 'Swiss machine', would have slipped down and fell down during the climb of Mount Nuptse, right next to Mount Everest. Steck is the first victim of this climbing season.
The UN stop the peacekeeping mission in Haiti and replaced by a smaller police mission. The fifteen members of the UN Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to a proposal to that effect.
A shop for meditation items sold accidentally bags from Nepal bearing swastikas. People who bought them were able to return the bags.
The Nepalese capital Kathmandu airport has been recently closed Monday as a feline animal roamed around on the runway. One pilot said it was a leopard.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has apologized brought to the people of Haiti for the role the UN played in the outbreak of cholera on the island in 2010. UN soldiers from Nepal were the disease to Haiti released until 2010 was of cholera.
The tiger is being threatened by planned new infrastructure in several Asian countries. Many roads and railways to build governments, walk through the habitats of protected species. Before the WWF warns.
Kenya pulls his troops back from the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The government in Nairobi has announced that Wednesday. Kenya is furious about the decision by the United Nations to dismiss the Kenyan commander of the peacekeeping force.
The United Nations asking the international community 200 million dollars (184 million euros) for the victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010. The plans for the million aid mean no admission of guilt, said David Nabarro, Special Representative of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Monday in New York.
The deadliest natural disaster was in 2015- after the earthquake of Nepal- the heat wave in France. The European heat wave in France in 3275 took people's lives, died in 8831 people earthquake in Nepal. Also, heat waves in Belgium, Pakistan and India are in the top 10 of natural disasters. This is evident from the World Disasters Report by the International Red Cross.
The FNV drags along with a guest worker from Bangladesh FIFA to court to put an end to the poor working conditions in the construction of stadiums and infrastructure for the World Cup in 2022 in Qatar. This was announced by the FNV Monday.
In Nepal Tuesday morning, at least 14 people died when the bus in which they were sitting on a mountain road plunged sixty meters down.
The government of Nepal is doing too little to end child marriage. In Nepal, 37 percent of married girls before they are eighteen and 10 percent even before their fifteenth, although the legal age of marriage for both men and women is twenty. Boy about 11 percent marry before they are eighteen, says human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
Came in a bus accident in southern Nepal Friday least twenty people were killed and seventeen wounded, the police said. The vehicle hit by yet unknown cause of the road, hit a few times and fell a hundred meters deeper riverbed.
After the earthquake in Italy, people on Facebook show with one press of a button they are safe. The network has activated the security check.
Least 31 people have been killed by a bus accident Monday in Kavre district in central Nepal. The Himalayan Times newspaper reported that at least fifteen passengers in the vehicle were injured.
By landslides at least 39 people were killed after heavy rains in Nepal.
In Nepal, 36 people arrested who were spending physician, without having the right papers.
On Mount Everest is a mountain climber deceased again. The IndiërSubhash Paulis after the Dutchman Eric Arnold and Australian Mary Strydom third climber who died in recent days on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world to altitude sickness, the Hindustan Times writes.
In a dramatic weekend for climbers on Mount Everest is the death toll now missing two Sunday again, two climbers from India for more than 30 hours. After the death of the Dutchman Eric Arnold (35) made from the same group of mountaineers also the 34-year-old Australian Maria Strydom living on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world.
Traffickers have shamelessly taken advantage of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal a year ago. The number included victims from the impoverished country has increased by at least 15 percent in the months after the disaster. That can be seen from the increased times that could be taken in time.,, It is an alarming situation, '' Mohna Ansari said Tuesday on behalf of the National Human Rights Commission.
The British government wants an investigation into reports of trade by child slaves from Nepal. That Home Secretary Theresa May said. The British newspaper The Sun writes Monday that vulnerable children in Nepal, including children, the massive earthquake last year lived in the country, sold to British families to perform household work.
Germans gave last year a record amount in charity. 5.5 billion was given to charity, 12 percent more than the year before. This is evident from study published Tuesday by the German research company GfK.
Nepal has extended the sell off in 2015 from the mountaineers of the Himalaya peaks in the hope that they return. The two earthquakes which hit the country almost a year ago, the climbers stay away. On the flanks of Mount Everest climbers died then at least nineteen when the tremors of their stay was buried by chunks of ice.
A Tara Air plane with 23 people on board went missing over Nepal. The unit departed Wednesday morning, but lost an hour after takeoff contact with air traffic control, say authorities told The Himalayan Times.
At least four people were killed by a massive earthquake in the eastern Indian state of Manipur. Nearly a hundred people were injured. The epicenter of the quake with a magnitude 6.8 was about 22 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Imphal, according to the report from the US Geological Survey USGS.
In Nepal, several people who survived the devastating earthquake in April, deceased yet. The cause is the winter cold, against which their emergency shelter are found to be resistant.
In disasters and major accidents this year worldwide, about 26,000 people were killed. Compared to 2014 is a doubling, the Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re reported Friday.
Most refugees who come into Japan come from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
