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The article presents several news briefs, statistics, and quotations, including information on the amount of moldy paper money that was found in a state park in Pennsylvania. Maryland Prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby is quoted regarding justice and six police officers who have been charged in the death of Baltimore, Maryland resident Freddie Gray. Nepal's Information Minister Minendra Rijal claims that his nation needs the international community's help to recover from an earthquake in April 2015.

The author focuses on the project Books 4 Nepal which will build library and school resource centre in Rasuwa, Nepal after earthquake in Nepal on April 25, 2015 and mentions cost of projects which includes furniture, books and materials.

The article focuses on the impact of earthquake in the Gorkha District of Nepal on April 25, 2015 wherein homes were destroyed, people are living in a makeshift refugee camp, and majority of the house in remote hillside village were wiped out.

The article focuses on the Nepal earthquake events including the series of tremors and associated disaster. The author gives a date wise description of his experience as felt from India, chain of incidents that followed, steps taken by Nepal government and reports generated, and aftermaths including death tolls, panic among public and large scale destruction. Further he includes his approach to catastrophic risk assessment and disaster management strategies.

Countries disrupted by conflict and political instability often underestimate economic downturns as well as the strength of subsequent recoveries, according to new International Monetary Fund research based on nighttime light levels captured by satellite imagery. Jiaxiong Yao, an economist at the IMF, presented those findings Tuesday in Washington, where policy makers are gathering for the fund's Spring Meetings. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the developing of temporary emergency shelters for homeless refugees and disaster victims throughout the world. An overview of the construct of interim housing for victims of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, including the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's role in this regard, is provided.

The article focuses on the risk of human trafficking in Nepal after the occurrence of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015. Topics discussed include concerns of Anuradha Koirala, founder of the non-profit organisation Maiti Nepal; the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Trafficking in Nepal; and concerns of Rajendra Gautam, founder of anti-trafficking non-governmental organization 3 Angels Nepal.

The article reports destruction of the Kaiser Library in Kathmandu, Nepal due to earthquake in the country on April 25, 2015, and mentions views of its chief librarian Janaki Karmacharya on the same.

The article focuses on the recognition of the effort of the organization Pakistan National Youth in providing financial support to the victims earthquake in Nepal.

The article discusses the seismic hazards in the region of Nepal, where thousands died on April 25, 2015 following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Research by geologist Kristin Morell and colleagues that found the Nepal earthquake released only some stress where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide and the influence of the size and shape of the seismic fault responsible for the Nepal earthquake on where and how intensely future earthquakes will strike are discussed.

A photograph showing the emergency response of nonprofit AmeriCares by airlifting emergency medical aid to the earthquake survivors in Nepal.

India, May 31 -- The earthquake that shook Nepal and northern India underscores the urgency to understand the seismicity of the Himalayas and to improve the design of buildings in [...]

Summary: As the earthquake ripped through Nepal, social media gave rise to a new term: digital humanitarianism. Calamities have always united people. It's amazing how disparate groups of people just [...]

India, May 12 -- How well do scientists understand the seismicity of the Himalayas? What makes the Himalayan region a hotbed of seismic activities? The answer lies in the processes [...]

We were nearing the end of the semester at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. My students and I had planned to celebrate the final week of a tough term [...]