India Evacuates Thousands to Avoid Floods

India has evacuated nearly 50,000 people from its eastern Bihar state amid fears of massive flooding from a river that originates in Nepal. The two countries coped with the potential disaster as India’s Prime Minister made a strong push to reinvigorate ties with its tiny Himalayan neighbor during a two-day stop in Kathmandu. Officials raced Monday to move scores of villages out of a vast swath of land in the Indian state of Bihar that faces the risk of being inundated with waters from the...

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