Globe Trot: Aid trickles into Nepal's remote areas

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NEPAL: As the death toll climbs above 5,000 in last Saturday’s earthquake, relief workers are getting in to assess both the human crisis and the archaeological disaster.

EGYPT: In the United States, you could get a guest slot on Saturday Night Live for filming a video mocking the Islamic State. In Egypt you land in jail on charges.

NIGERIA: The military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram in the northeastern Sambisa Forest, but they do not include any of the schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago from Chibok.

With Boko Haram victims reaching 13,000 since 2009, the militants reportedly have renamed themselves ISWAP, or Islamic State West Africa Province.

IRAN: A U.S. Navy destroyer was dispatched to the Strait of Hormuz after Iranian patrol boats seized a cargo ship amid signs Iran intends to harass commercial traffic in the Persian Gulf gateway.

Mindy Belz

Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.

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