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ByKatyDaigle and Binaj Gurubacharya The Associated Press KATHMANDU, NEPAL As the death toll from Ne- pal's devastating earth- quake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials in remote, shattered villages near the epicenter pleaded Monday for food, shelter and medicine. Help poured in after Saturday's magnitude-7.8 quake, with countries large and small sending medical and rescue teams, aircraft and basic supplies. The small airport in the capi- tal of Kathmandu was con- gested and chaotic, with some flights forced to turn back early in the day. Buildings in parts of the city were reduced to rubble, and there were shortages of food, fuel, electricity and shelter. As bodies were re- covered, relatives cremated the dead along the Bagmati River, and at least a dozen pyres burned late into the night. Conditions were far worse in the countryside, with rescue workers still struggling to reach moun- tain villages two days after the earthquake. Some roads and trails to the Gorkha district, where the quake was centered, were blocked by landslides — but also by traffic jams that regularly clog the route north of Kathmandu. "There are people who are not getting food and shelter. I've had reports of villages where 70 percent of the houses have been de- stroyed," said Udav Prashad Timalsina, the top official for the Gorkha region. World Vision aid worker Matt Darvas arrived in the district in the afternoon and said almost no assis- tance had reached there ahead of him. Newer concrete buildings were intact, Darvas said, but some villages were re- ported to be devastated. He cited a "disturbing" report from the village of Singla, where up to 75 percent of the buildings may have col- lapsed and there has been no contact since Saturday night. In the villages that have been reached, World Vi- sion said the greatest needs were for search-and-rescue teams, food, blankets, tarps and medical treatment. Timalsina said 223 peo- ple had been confirmed dead in Gorkha district but he presumed "the number would go up because there are thousands who are in- jured." Nepal's Home Ministry said the country's death toll had risen to 4,010. Another 61 were killed in neighbor- ing India, and China's offi- cial Xinhua News Agency reported 25 dead in Tibet. At least 18 of the dead were killed at Mount Everest as the quake unleashed an av- alanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit at- tempts. At least 7,180 people were injured in the quake, police said. Tens of thousands are estimatedtobelefthomeless. Rescue workers and med- ical teams from at least a dozen countries were help- ing police and army troops in Kathmandu and sur- rounding areas, said Maj. Gen. Binod Basnyat, a Ne- pal army spokesman. Con- tributions came from large countries like India and China — but also from Ne- pal's tiny Himalayan neigh- bor of Bhutan, which dis- patched a medical team. Two teams of U.S. Army Green Beret soldiers hap- pened to be in Nepal when the quake struck, and the 26 Americans — who were training with the Nepalese army — are staying to help with search-and-relief ef- forts. The 11-member crew of a C-130 cargo plane that brought them also will re- main to evacuate any Amer- ican citizens if needed, said Col. Steve Warren, a Penta- gon spokesman. A second U.S. cargo plane carrying members of a Los Ange- les urban search-and-res- cue team was due to arrive Tuesday, he said. NEPAL Quake death toll tops 4,000; villages seek aid MANISHSWARUP—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Monika Basnet, 15, right, holds her brother Munal Basnet, 10, during the cremation of their father killed in Saturday's earthquake, at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of Bagmati river, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday. BERNAT ARMANGUE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nepalese policemen clear the debris at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday. By Jim Kuhnhenn and Matthew Lee The Associated Press WASHINGTON When President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Min- ister Shinzo Abe meet on Tuesday, a major subtext of their discussions will be the world leader not in the room — Chinese Pres- ident Xi Jinping. China's rise under- lies both the economic and security discussions that will highlight Abe's state visit to the White House and is at the heart of Obama's so-called U.S. rebalance to the Asia-pa- cific region. Ahead of Tuesday's talks, Japanese and U.S. foreign and defense min- isters approved revisions to the U.S.-Japan defense guidelines that boost Ja- pan's military capability amid growing Chinese as- sertiveness in disputed ar- eas in the East and South China Sea claimed by Bei- jing. The changes, which strengthen Japan's role in missile defense, mine sweeping and ship in- spections, are the first re- visions in 18 years to the rules that govern U.S.-Ja- pan defense cooperation. The meeting also comes as attention heightens in the U.S. over a Trans-Pa- cific Partnership trade agreement — a 12-nation deal to liberalize com- merce around the Pacific rim. The U.S. and Japan are the biggest partici- pants in the negotiations. Welcoming his guest a day early, Obama took Abe to the Lincoln Memo- rial Monday afternoon. The president played tour guide, leading the Japa- nese leader up the steps into the memorial where they examined the Get- tysburg Address sketched into the marble walls. While Obama and Abe won'tbereadytoannounce any trade breakthrough, officials on both sides say they will likely declare they have made consider- able progress in closing re- maining gaps over ques- tions of tariffs in the U.S. on Japanese pickup trucks and barriers in Japan on certain U.S. agricultural products. WORLD Ch in a looms large in US- Japan talks By Peter Leonard The Associated Press KIEV,UKRAINE Ukraine's president said at a high- level summit with Euro- pean Union officials Mon- day that his country will be able to meet conditions to apply for EU member- ship within five years. While Kiev looks to the distant future, however, anxiety is heightening over the souring security situation in the east of the country, where fight- ing continues to rage be- tween government and separatist forces. Speaking at the start of talks in Kiev, Presi- dent Petro Poroshenko called on the EU to sup- port his initiative to de- ploy international peace- keepers in war-stricken regions. 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