Kathmandu, Dec 21: Chairperson of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rabi Lamichhane, met Prime Minister Sushila Karki on Sunday evening.During the meeting held at the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar, they discussed contemporary issues, according to the PM Karki's Secretariat.Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Jagadish Kharel, RSP office-bearers and members were present on the occasion. ...
Ukrainian top negotiator Rustem Umerov said he will meet with US counterparts on Sunday, as a third day of talks to end the war was about to begin in Miami.
Israel approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move the far-right finance minister said on Sunday was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.The decision taken by the security cabinet brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to a statement from the office of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.The latest approvals come days after the United Nations said the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank all of which are illegal under international law had reached its highest level since at least 2017.
More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh said Sunday, ahead of regional talks aimed at easing tensions.The renewed fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours this month, including with tanks, drones and artillery, has killed at least 22 people in Thailand and 19 in Cambodia, officials said.The conflict stems from a territorial dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) border and a smattering of ancient temple ruins situated on the frontier.Cambodia and Thailand both said Sunday that a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign...
US Senator Lindsey Graham accused Hamas and Hezbollah of rearming during a visit to Israel on Sunday, and charged that the Palestinian Islamist group was also consolidating power in Gaza.After two years of war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory, a fragile ceasefire has held since October, despite both sides trading accusations of violations.A separate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese movement Hezbollah came into effect in November 2024 after more than a year of hostilities, though Israel continues to carry out strikes on Lebanese territory.Israel has made dismantling the arsenals of both groups, allies of its arch-foe...