UN to cut peacekeepers’ pay to curb sex abuse
United Nations: The United Nations today proposed a series of new steps aimed at stamping out sex abuse by peacekeepers, such as cutting off payments, as a report showed an increase in abuse allegations. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an annual report that there had been a total of 145 cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving troops and civilians across all UN peace missions in 2016, up from 99 in 2015.
Hindu woman axed to death in Pak
Islamabad: A Hindu woman has been axed to death by a group of unidentified persons in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, a media report said.
lanka to scale back port deal with China
Colombo: Cash-strapped Sri lanka is to scale back a profitable but controversial deal to sell a deep-sea port to a Chinese company after widespread protests, the ports Minister said on Thursday.
Huntsman offered job as US envoy to Russia
Washington: President Donald Trump has offered former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman the position of US Ambassador to Russia, amid investigations into Russian meddling in the US presidential race last year, The Washington Post has reported.
24 killed in Nepal bus accident
Kathmandu: At least 24 people were killed and 41 others injured on Thursday when a bus veered off the road and plunged down about 200 metres from a highway in western Nepal.
Twin bombing kills 26 at wedding in Baghdad
Baghdad: A twin suicide bombing struck a village wedding north of Baghdad as the wedding party gathered in the evening hours, killing at least 26 people and wounding dozens, a Government spokesman said on Thursday.