Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah made his first foreign trip six months into office when he led a delegation to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. His purpose was to ask wealthy nations with high emissions what they owe Nepal after flash floods killed more than 1,450 people and left nearly 6,000 missing. The floods struck on Aug. 26, when a mass of water, mud and ice broke loose near the Nepal-China border and tore through villages and infrastructure. Nepal observed a national day of mourning 13 days later. China has reported 43 dead and more than 500 missing on its side of the border. Rescue crews have pulled survivors from the wreckage, including a man freed from a tunnel at a hydropower plant and a 64-year-old woman recovered from the top floor of a mud-buried building. India has been drawn into the disaster on several fronts. Nepali police list many Indian nationals among the missing — the largest foreign contingent — and floodwaters are reported to have carried some victims' bodies roughly 240 kilometers downstream into Indian territory. Indian rescue