Nepal is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, but its location amid impervious mountains is often challenging. Sometimes the easiest way to complete public transport routes, is this one.

Nepal's foreign minister has called for urgent measures to address the risks climate change poses to mountain regions, in a speech at the UN climate change conference in Turkey.

Nepal. Cambodia. Bangladesh. Venezuela. Madrid. Bangkok. Those are audience tags Harris County, Texas put on its taxpayer funded get out the vote ads this fall. Not ONE tag on the list says Houston. Not one says Texas. The county clerk, Teneshia Hudspeth, spent $43,429 on the ads in thirty days. The tags steered them to Black, Latino and Asian users. Thursday the Texas Attorney General's office sued her in Harris County district court. Ken Paxton recused himself, he is on that ballot too. The petition calls the list "this peculiar assortment" and says there "can be no legitimate reason" for it. Harris County's lawyers called the suit a "pathetic political distraction." Thursday night, with one day of early voting left, the clerk pulled the tags. Her reason, in a statement: "to avoid unnecessary distractions." You do not pull the thing you just called a distraction. You pull the thing you cannot defend. 💎

Nepal’s catastrophic floods, which killed more than 1400 people and left over 5000 missing, should mark a turning point for global climate action, UNOPS chief Jorge Moreira da Silva says. Speaking in Kathmandu, he urged international support for recovery, saying a country contributing little to global emissions should not bear the reconstruction costs alone. #NepalFloods# #ClimateChange# #ClimateAction# #UnitedNations# #PakistanTV#

Nepali authorities urged villagers to move to safer places after a flood in a river in the central part of the country swept away several houses and infrastructure, but there were no reports of any casualties