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Some 70,000 attended the rally to launch a three-day convention of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist).
KATHMANDU, Dec 13 - Tens of thousands rallied for the party of Nepal’s ousted prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, on Saturday, in the largest gathering in the Himalayan country since youth-led anti-graft protests forced him out three months ago.
More than 200 people remain missing as of Saturday (Dec 13), while over 5,400 have been injured.
The disaster has also injured more than 5,400 people.
Dec 13 - International human rights groups on Saturday condemned the reported re-arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi in Iran, with the Nobel committee calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately clarify her whereabouts.
Police are waiting for the autopsy and toxicology reports on influencer Iris Hsieh's death.
The complaint alleged that she and other officials misused public funds through “coordinated schemes".
For now, the organisation's activities do not appear to be a threat to national security.
Vietnam’s leaders have repeatedly signalled plans to buy more big-ticket American items.
Dec 13 - Iranian authorities detained 18 crew members of a foreign tanker seized in the Gulf of Oman on Friday that they said was carrying 6 million litres of smuggled fuel, Iranian media reported on Saturday, citing the Hormozgan province judiciary.
A military jet bombed the general hospital of Mrauk-U in western Rakhine state on Dec 10.
He said Mahathir’s allegations were likely made because he had received inaccurate information.
Manila said nearly two dozen Filipino fishing boats near Sabina Shoal were targeted with water cannon and blocking manoeuvres.
More than 30 people, including patients, medical workers and children, were reportedly killed and about 80 others injured in the military airstrike on the general hospital in the western state of Rakhine.
China’s coast guard said it had driven away multiple Philippine vessels and taken “control measures”.
Beijing's trillion-dollar trade surplus is stirring tensions with its trade partners and drawing criticism from observers who say its production-focused economic growth model is unsustainable.
Despite being in effect in Indonesia for nearly a decade, chemical castration remains a rare sentence.
China consistently reminds its people of the 1937 massacre, in which it says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in what was then its capital.
The 3,500-page charge sheet names a total of seven suspects.
The 3,500-page charge sheet names a total of seven suspects.
Pyongyang has reportedly sent thousands of troops to fight for Moscow as it presses ahead with its nearly four-year invasion of Ukraine.
"Thailand will continue to perform military actions until we feel no more harm and threats to our land and people," Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday (Dec 13).
President Xi Jinping did not make an appearance at the memorial, which he last attended in 2017.
The cables will lower internet prices for consumers and support economic growth.
US President Donald Trump said on Dec 12 Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to halt fighting along their disputed border.
This comes just hours after US leader Trump announced an agreement between the 2 sides.
For years, Washington framed China as the defining adversary of the American century. The National Security Strategy released on December 4 has quietly abandoned that posture. At just 33 pages, the document mentions China sparingly and never as an existential threat. Instead,
The renewed fighting comes as the Philippines prepares to take over as ASEAN chair from Malaysia.
The VLCC Skipper, seized by the US Coast Guard under a court warrant, with the assistance of two helicopters from the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, with US Marines carrying out the takeover of the ship, was a legal seizure under US and international law, despite
Beijing appears to be softening its stance on Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), with Chinese policymakers and commentators shifting their focus from outright rejection to the practical question of how the chips would be governed in use. When Reuters reported on
Some 303,200 civilians have been displaced by the latest fighting, according to figures from the Cambodia authorities.
SEOUL, Dec 13 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North's KCNA news agency reported on Saturday.
The flight disruptions laid bare weaknesses that threaten the sector’s growth, and the vulnerability of passengers.
Russia’s war economy is fuelling Pyongyang’s most ambitious military upgrade in decades, says an academic.
I have explained in a separate analysis that joint strategic resource investments after the end of the Ukrainian Conflict, particularly in energy and critical minerals, can assist the US in economically competing with China. This vision aligns with the focus of the new National
Dec 12 - A joint Saudi-Emirati military delegation arrived in Aden to discuss measures aimed at defusing tensions in southern Yemen days after the country’s main southern separatist group claimed broad control across the south, a government source told Reuters on Friday.
Thai PM says he told US president a ceasefire is only possible after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces.
The latest fighting between the South-east Asian neighbours has killed at least 20 people this week.
KYIV, Dec 12 - Ukrainian drones struck two Russian oil rigs in the Caspian Sea, an official in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Friday.
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s US-supplied F-16 warplanes and Swedish Gripen jets bombed at least three Cambodian casinos during the past week in a gamble Bangkok hopes will obliterate its enemy’s alleged ability to fire armed drones from the border zone complexes and stockpile
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to preempt US states from enacting rules governing artificial intelligence, a major departure from the typical federalist structure of American government that Trump said was necessary because of the issue’s high
China’s testing of giant un-crewed underwater drones signals a quiet but consequential shift in maritime warfare, one that could threaten undersea cables, sensor networks and even the strategic balance across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This month, Naval News reported that
Thai PM Anutin also spoke to US President Donald Trump, who conveyed his concerns about the situation.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin said US President Trump told him he wanted peace and for Thailand to halt operations and return to a previously agreed ceasefire.
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 - International troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month to form a U.N.-authorized stabilization force, two U.S. officials told Reuters, but it remains unclear how Palestinian militants Hamas will be disarmed.