by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 30, 2015 | World
Kathmandu, AP—Under a steady morning drizzle, hundreds of people lined up Thursday in Kathmandu hoping to board free government-provided buses to rural parts of the quake-hit country as food aid began to reach remote villages near the epicenter. Tens of thousands of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 29, 2015 | World
Kathmandu, Reuters—Trekkers stranded by an avalanche in Nepal, many of them from Israel, fought for food and for places on rescue helicopters after being denied shelter by locals in the aftermath of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people. Up to 250 people...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 27, 2015 | World
Bhaktapur, Reuters—Thousands of Nepalis began fleeing the capital Kathmandu on Monday, terror-stricken by two days of powerful aftershocks and looming shortages of food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people. A senior interior ministry...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 26, 2015 | World
Kathmandu, AP— A powerful aftershock shook Nepal on Sunday, making buildings sway and sending panicked Kathmandu residents running into the streets a day after a massive earthquake left at least 1,900 people dead. The cawing of crows mixed with terrified screams as...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 25, 2015 | World
Kathmandu, Reuters—A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and triggering a fatal avalanche on Mount Everest. There were reports...
