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Mountains Speak, Leaders Listen: Nepal Hosts Hindu Kush Climate Parliament

Mata Bhoomiḥ Putro’ham Prithivyāḥ. The Earth is my mother; I am her child. This Sanskrit verse, which inaugurated the Sagarmatha Sambaad earlier this year, continued to reverberate around the Soaltee Hotel in Kathmandu as lawmakers from all across the Hindu Kush Himalaya gathered. It served as reminder that climate change

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Trump’s Alaska Folly

Putin has no reason to prefer Trump’s vision of a beautiful future to his own: a Ukraine with a puppet