Kathmandu, Dec 26: The newly appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, Balananda Sharma, has said the ministry would forge cooperation with neighbouring and friendly countries. Cooperation could be sought on election-related issues as well, he added.Assuming the office at the ministry in Singha Durbar on Friday, Minister Sharma reminded that it is his duty to ensure proper engagement whenever cooperation is required.
Nigeria on Friday signalled that more strikes against jihadist groups were expected after a Christmas Day bombardment by US forces against militants in the north of the country, which it said was a joint operation with its military.The west African country faces multiple interlinked security crises, with jihadists waging an insurgency in the northeast since 2009 and armed
The UN rights office welcomed Friday the release of six opposition members detained since last month's coup in Guinea-Bissau but insisted all arbitrary detentions in the west African country must end.The six people freed were close associates of Domingos Simoes Pereira, head of the PAIGC party that led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974. Pereira has been in custody since the coup.
Tests have revealed that 84 per cent of Peshawar's water supply is contaminated, as the city faces a worsening crisis in water and sanitation, prompting experts to warn that this situation is contributing to the spread of polio and other waterborne illnesses throughout the provincial capital, according to a report by The Express Tribune.A UNICEF survey indicates that approximately 400,000 individuals in Peshawar still lack access to basic toilet facilities. Furthermore, health specialists caution that unsafe drinking water, open defecation, and insufficient sanitation are directly leading to increases in diarrhoea, polio, and other avoidable diseases.The situation has worsened due to...
A Malaysian judge sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak to 15 more years in jail on Friday after convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering in a sovereign wealth fund graft scandal.Najib was also fined 11.4 billion ringgit ($2.8 billion) for his role in the plunder of billions from the now-defunct 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) more than a decade ago.He is already serving a six-year term after being convicted in a separate 1MDB case, and Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said Najib's latest term would begin only after that sentence was completed.Sequerah convicted the 72-year-old former leader on all...