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Hamas forces back on Gaza streets as truce holds
AFP, Published on 14/10/2025
» GAZA CITY - Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities Tuesday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would see them disarmed.
Nepal’s young protesters find an unlikely partner: the army
New York Times, Published on 11/09/2025
» KATHMANDU — When protesters in Nepal torched parliament, the Supreme Court and the homes of five former prime ministers on Tuesday, no one seemed to be in charge of a country in anarchy. Then, that night, Gen Ashok Raj Sigdel, the chief of the Nepali army, appeared in a short video, urging calm in the streets.
Lebanon president vows punishment for attackers of UN peacekeeper
AFP, Published on 15/02/2025
» BEIRUT (LEBANON) — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed to punish the perpetrators of an attack on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping convoy, with authorities set to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday.
Five Russian climbers die on Nepalese peak
Reuters, Published on 08/10/2024
» KATHMANDU - Five Russian climbers who have been missing on Nepal’s Mount Dhaulagiri since the weekend were found dead on the world’s seventh tallest mountain, their hiking company said on Tuesday.
More than 60 are missing in Nepal after landslide sweeps buses into river
New York Times, Published on 13/07/2024
» KATHMANDU — More than 60 people are missing after a landslide swept two moving passenger buses into a river swollen by monsoon rains in central Nepal in the early hours of Friday, officials said.
South Korea needs foreign workers, but often fails to protect them
New York Times, Published on 02/03/2024
» POCHEON, South Korea — Samsung phones. Hyundai cars. LG televisions. South Korean exports are available in virtually every corner of the world. But the nation is more dependent than ever before on an import to keep its factories and farms humming: foreign labour.
Nepalese job seekers illegally recruited into Russian army
Reuters, Published on 06/12/2023
» KATHMANDU - Police in Nepal have detained 10 people they say charged unemployed youths huge amounts of money for travel visas, then sent them for illegal recruitment into the Russian army, an official said on Wednesday.
Second woman declared dead on Tibet peak
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2023
» BEIJING - A second woman hoping to be the first American female climber to scale all of the world’s 8,000-metre (26,246 feet) mountains has been declared dead on a remote peak in Tibet, according to her family.
Two dead, 56 injured in Romania gas station blasts
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» BUCHAREST - Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that left two people dead and 56 people injured north of Romania's capital Bucharest at the weekend.
Pakistan climber cleanses K2 as shrine to fallen father
AFP, Published on 10/08/2023
» K2 BASECAMP (PAKISTAN) - Gazing up from K2 Basecamp, Sajid Ali Sadpara sees Earth's second-highest mountain, his father's final resting place, and a blight of litter on the furthest reaches of the natural world.