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Nepal's leader says his country is paying the price of climate change

DW25 September 2026, 04:51 UTCNepal

Nepalese Prime Minister Balendra Shah called the devastating Nepal-Tibet floods a "warning to the world" — and questioned if the world had "really heard that warning."

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