Tiger population in Nepal increases
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Tiger population has gone up to 235 from 198 in 2013 as the country plans to increase the number of wild cats to 250 by 2022, according to a latest tiger census report unveiled here on Sunday.
Meet with Trump not on table: Erdogan
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York next week is not currently on the table. “If a demand comes from Washington, we will evaluate it,” Erdogan said in Istanbul, prior to his departure for New York, Xinhua reported.
Egypt sentences badie to life
Cairo: An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie to life imprisonment over storming a police station in the Upper Egypt’s province of Minya in 2013, the media reported. A total of 64 other members of the Islamic group were also handed life sentence, which is 25 years in jail in Egypt.
Schools must fight extremism: UNESCO
Paris: The head of the UN education agency says schools are ground zero in the fight against anti-Semitism and extremist violence — and she will push world leaders meeting in New York this week to invest more in teaching tolerance. “No one is born a violent extremist,” Azoulay said in an interview.