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 The plane was heading to Jomsom, a popular tourist and pilgrimage destination located 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Pokhara. All 22 victims of a plane disaster have been recovered in Nepal. Earth Situation News KATHMANDU – Nepali search and rescue personnel found the body of the last of 22 passengers aboard a small plane that crashed in the Himalayas two days ago, as well as the flight's voice recorder, on Tuesday. The De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter plane crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara, 125 kilometres (80 miles) west of Kathmandu, on Sunday morning, killing two Germans, four Indians, and 16 Nepalis. On what was supposed to be a 20-minute trip, the plane was headed to Jomsom, a major tourist and religious site 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Pokhara. According to a representative for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority (CAAN), the plane only carried a voice recorder to record ground-to-air and air-to-air communications. A flight data recor...

The United States has directed India to lift its prohibition on wheat exports.  17, 2022, a laborer at a wholesale grain market in Ghaziabad prepares to put a sack of wheat into a customer's car. India's wheat production has been impacted by scorching weather, with the nation seeing its hottest March on record, forcing the government to forecast a 5 percent drop in output this year from 109 million tones in 2021. -AFP   US, UN: The US hopes India will lift its prohibition on wheat exports, according to the country's senior UN ambassador, who warned that the move would exacerbate global wheat shortages.   \"We're pushing nations not to restrict exports because we believe that any restrictions on exports would worsen food shortages," Linda Thomas-Greenfield said ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on food security.   The United States has directed India to lift its prohibition on wheat exports.    India's minister of state for external affairs, V-LaVall...