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Ottawa is assessing its own share of the disaster: 30 Canadians and permanent residents are missing in Nepal, with ten officials dispatched to the scene, and families in Toronto are left searching police records due to a lack of news.

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Kuala Lumpur is accounting for its missing citizens: fifty-five Malaysians remain unaccounted for in Nepal, while seventy-seven others, found alive, await repatriation to Kathmandu.

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Kathmandu is grappling with a growing toll - 1,204 bodies, 4,216 missing - as it relies on the tunnels of hydroelectric construction sites to locate potential survivors.

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Canberra is gauging the anxiety of thirty-eight Australian families on edge over the flooded tunnels in Nepal, caught between diplomatic uncertainty and community solidarity in Melbourne.

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Beijing claims an active role in addressing the disaster: the Chinese press scientifically documents the origin of the landslide, tallies its own losses in Xizang, and highlights its cross-border cooperation with Kathmandu.

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New Delhi is assessing its own share of the Nepalese disaster: 163 nationals rescued, DNA profiling underway to identify its dead, and a rescue team still trapped in the mud of Chilime's tunnels.

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Seoul is mobilizing its national rescue operation to locate nine missing nationals in the tunnels of the Rasuwa hydroelectric project, while its Nepalese diaspora is organizing its own solidarity effort.

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Paris is questioning the role of climate change and American budget cuts in the scale of the Nepalese disaster, more so than just the body count in Rasuwa.

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The United States government is first and foremost concerned with the fate of its own citizens: more than seventy-five Americans remain unaccounted for in Nepal, while the US press highlights the ongoing confusion between the number of bodies recovered and the total death toll.

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Brazil gauges the Nepalese disaster on a human scale: the body-less funerals in Kathmandu and the testimony of a tunnel worker carry more weight in the Brazilian press than the official death toll, which varies daily.

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Bangladesh is taking note of the Bhote Koshi flood, minus the tunnel count, and the call for climate compensation launched by Kathmandu to the largest emitters - a fight that Dhaka, a vulnerable delta downstream of the same Himalayan glaciers, recognizes as its own.

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Manila draws a bitter climate parallel from the Nepalese catastrophe: like Nepal, the archipelago suffers from disasters it did not provoke, without any international fund yet compensating for these losses.

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Germany distinguishes between two information systems in the same disaster: public reports and nominal lists in Nepal, frozen figures and digital blackout on the Tibetan side under Beijing's control.

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Helsinki links the surge of the Bhote Koshi to climate injustice and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, while following the fate of a fellow Finn who is among the 4,200 people still missing.

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Buenos Aires is dealing with an unexpected diplomatic incident: a member of President Milei's administration has attributed the Nepalese crisis to a Chinese state-owned company, prompting a sharp response from the Chinese Embassy just days before a ministerial trip to Beijing.

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