The last week was by far one of the most momentous in a terrible sense.
US President Trump withdrew America from the landmark Paris climate accord, undermining the global environmental protection efforts. America chose to become the third country in the world to stay out of the accord, together with Syria and Nicaragua, which had not signed the treaty at all.
The former US Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey attended a Senate hearing and answered questions about the FBI investigation into the Russian involvement in President Trump's election campaign, pushing Trump a few steps closer to his impeachment. The impeachment will probably not take place until 2018 because his party controls both houses of Congress. But after that?
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Researchers found in Morocco human remains that date back to 300,000 years, upending the assumption that human civilization should be no more than 200,000 years old started from East Africa.
Six Arab countries spearheaded by Saudi Arabia imposed an embargo on Qatar, which was blamed for supporting Sunni Islamist terrorists in the Arab world.
Terrorists killed 12 people in Iran and 7 in the United Kingdom, the one in the UK was second such attack in as many weeks.
Back in Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba replaced Pushpa Kamal Dahal as prime minister as part of the understanding between the two leaders and the people who had filed the impeachment motion against the former Chief Justice Sushila Karki.
These are only a few representative examples. But the message is the world is in turmoil.
What does it all mean for the world and Nepal?
Let us start with the world. The US withdrawal from the Paris accord has set back the potential progress in taming climate change and environmental degradation by decades. It means some island countries will move a few steps closer to extinction and many coastal countries will see their coastal areas under
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Ganging up by several neighbors against Qatar has destabilized further the already most unstable region in the world. While Qatar's support for terrorists must not be condoned, the strong-armed tactics of some of the very countries that have funded terrorist and supplied terrorists across the world is a travesty.
The rise of terrorism in any country is concerning for the rest of the world. In this day and age, the mobility of human beings and good and services has increased to an unprecedented scale. As terrorist is infectious, it may spread widely once again, as it had once in the past at the height of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
That brings me to Nepal which has been, and will be, bearing, the impact all those global developments as well as its own internal happenings.
The impact of climate change is real for Nepal, as the Himalayas have been losing their snow cover and several glacial lakes are heading towards bursting, which might wash away people, animals, villages and towns, and fertile