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Villagers take part in a cremation procession of people who died during an earthquake in Jajarkot, Nepal on Nov. 5, 2023. Villagers in the mountains of northwest Nepal cremated the bodies of some who perished in an earthquake that shook the area Friday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and occurred at a depth of 11 miles (18 kilometers). Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center confirmed the epicenter was in Jajarkot, which is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of the capital, Kathmandu. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in 2015 killed some 9,000 people and damaged about 1 million structures.
Persons: pyres, Bika, Rekha Sharma, Pun Organizations: Villagers, Sunday, Geological Survey, Earthquake Monitoring, Research Center Locations: Jajarkot, Nepal, Chiuri, Jajarkot district, Rukum, Chepare, U.S, Kathmandu, Nepalgunj, India's, New Delhi, Earthquakes
James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley, met with the Saudi crown prince at the onset of the pandemic. The young royal kept sneezing during the meeting — and Gorman's fear of a deadly pathogen began to grow. He was in the royal palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seated to the right of the country's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Given their recent experience with a deadly virus, Gorman took the caution of his Kuwaiti hosts as a sign that the West was underestimating the dangers of this one. And now, as Gorman chatted with the controversial 34-year-old crown prince about ways Saudi Arabia could diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on oil, the young royal kept sneezing.
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