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  • Rescuers in Nepal find two more people alive after flash flood disaster

    Chinese man at Trishuli hydropower project and Nepali woman in Nuwakot found 10 days into rescue operation Emergency responders have rescued a Chinese man and a Nepali woman in two separate operations as authorities continued to search for thousands of people missing 10 days after massive floods hit Nepal. The Nepali military said on Saturday…

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  • Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster

    Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” and accept shared responsibility…

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  • ‘Trust deficit’: Why India’s economic data has sparked a furore

    India’s statistical system once commanded respect, and its data on economic and social indicators was considered rigorous – that appears to have eroded • Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up here There isn’t much that we Indians agree on these days. GDP numbers are no exception. Last week, India released…

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  • ‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains

    Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum will return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east India Anthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that human remains belonging to their ancestors that had been on display in a British museum…

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  • MPs reject assisted dying bill after tense debate – UK politics live

    The bill would have allowed terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to end their lives, after the approval of a panel of experts While the debate continues, we have a comment from Sam Royston, executive director of research and policy at Marie Curie. He said the government must address the crisis…

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  • Two workers pulled alive from tunnel nine days after Nepal-Tibet floods

    Officials say pair were rescued from Trishuli 3A hydropower tunnel in Nepal after being trapped at depth of 170 metres Two people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods buried the projects in deep mud and left them trapped. The workers were rescued during an…

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  • US lawmakers urge secretive British court to open up about Apple case

    Democrat Ron Wyden and Republican Warren Davidson tell investigatory powers tribunal that secrecy over encrypted data case is ‘needlessly’ straining US-UK relations A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain’s most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple’s legal fight against a government demand to break into its customers’ encrypted data, warning…

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  • How did your MP vote on the reintroduced assisted dying bill?

    MPs today voted not to approve the assisted dying bill at its second reading. The bill, which was brought back to the Commons after being blocked in the Lords, would have allowed terminally ill people to end their lives with medical help in some circumstances. Find out how your MP voted Continue reading…

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  • MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

    Bill fails at second reading despite near-identical legislation being approved by Commons in last parliament A bill to permit assisted dying in England and Wales has been voted down by MPs, almost certainly stopping such a measure from being enacted before the next general election at the very least least. In the second reading of…

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