BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart on Wednesday Beijing is willing to help “reconciliation” between Seoul and Pyongyang, China’s foreign ministry
JERUSALEM: U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillusioned Palestinians and facing deep Israeli doubts over his pledge to prevent a
MANILA, Philippines: The Philippine Supreme Court temporarily halted the implementation of a law that provides state funding for contraceptives, legislation opposed by the dominant Roman Catholic Church but supported by
KATHMANDU: Newly appointed Finance Minister Shankar Prasad Koirala has pledged to provide means and resources needed for holding the fresh Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. “There will be no financial lacking
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces arrested a close aide of ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday following a siege at his Cairo home, a security official and witnesses said. Ahmed
PARIS: The last time Tom Selldorff saw his grandfather’s prized art collection he was six in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands. Now, he’s 84 years old —
Kathmandu: Home Minister of Nepal’s Interim Election Council of Ministers Madhav Prasad Ghimire said the holding fresh CA poll was current government’s single goal. The government, all cabinet ministers consisting
Birgunj: CPN (UML) Vice chairwoman Bidhya Bhandari today said the nation was by the election fever in a full swing. “Current government would show its mettle by holding the CA
KATHMANDU: Two fake SLC examiners were arrested from two different exam centres on Tuesday. A fake examinee was arrested from the Panipokhari-based Bhanubhakta Memorial School and the rest one from
BAGHDAD: A wave of bombings tore through Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 56 people and wounding more than 200, highlighting increasing sectarian tensions in Iraq on the eve