Nepal Parliament meet postponed over no-trust motion
Kathmandu: The no-trust motion against Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli could not be taken up on Thursday as ruling and Opposition parties differed over the issue of initiating discussion on the vote tabled by the Opposition.
Portugal’s Guterres leads in first round vote for UN chief
United Nations: Antonio Guterres, Portugal’s former Prime Minister who was the UN’s refugee chief for 10 years, took the lead in the first straw poll vote on Thursday to pick the next UN secretary-general, diplomats said.
80 kids, women rescued from Boko Haram
lagos: Nigeria’s military says it has rescued 80 children and women held captive by the Boko Haram extremist group in a remote northeastern village. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman says they were freed on Tuesday by troops who attacked a gathering of the Islamic fighters at Gangere village in Borno state.
Plane diverted after drunk Aussies brawl
Jakarta: A rowdy brawl among a group of drunken Australians forced a plane to make an unscheduled landing in Indonesia, an official said on Thursday.
Chinese daily former head gets 11-yr jail
Beijing: A court in south China’s Guangdong province has upheld the ruling by a lower court to sentence the former head of an official local newspaper to 11 years in jail for graft.