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Kerry warns of punishment for NKorea nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart have agreed to make sureNorth Korea is punished

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Bangladesh jails Islamic party leader to life

DHAKA, Bangladesh: A Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced a leader of the country’s main Islamic party to life in jail Tuesday for his role during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

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People have supported us in anti-govt agitation: UML boss

KATHMANDU: Optimistic CPN-UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal has said people have supported the oppositions’ anti-government demonstrations. “This is the right time to unseat the Baburam Bhattarai-led government through the street protests.

CPN-UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal
Madhav Nepal and other opponent leaders roared in Pokhara

POKHARA: The top leaders of opposition political parties slammed the UCPN (Maoist) and incumbent government for impeding the process of consensus. Speaking at an anti-government demonstration in Pokhara on Monday,

Germany's Andreas Bachmann of the Bochum prosecution service, is seen during a press conference on match fixing in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Feb. 4, 2013.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
European match-fixing probe: 380 suspicious games

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 380 suspicious matches – including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games –

Former England captain Andrew Strauss
Strauss awarded honorary life membership of MCC

London: Former England captain Andrew Strauss was on Monday awarded honorary life membership of the MCC, the prestigious English institution responsible for safeguarding the game’s rules. Strauss, 35, guided England

Asad Shafiq celebrates his half century as Misbah-ul-Haq looks on. -Photo by AP
Battling Pakistan hold up South Africa victory bid

Karachi (AFP): Pakistan batsmen Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq held up South Africa’s push for victory with a defiant fifth wicket partnership on the third day of the first Test at

CPN UML K P Oli
Oli says congress should provide Koirala’s alternative, if necessary

NEPALGUNJ: CPN UML leader K P Oli has ridiculed the UCPN Maoist proposal to form government in the leadership of an independent personality. The flamboyant UML leader, who is known

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UCPN Maoist pledges are piles of lies: Deuba

Itahari: Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has claimed that the promises made by the UCPN Maoist leaders during their ongoing seventh  general convention were just ‘piles of lies’,

Nepal police guns down abductors while rescuing abducted girl

Parsa: Nepal police gunned down two abductor in cross firing while rescuing a girl from their clutches in the eastern part of the nation.  A police investigation team engaged in