Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: KATHMANDU
Nepal’s communist party leader named next prime minister
:: The leader of Nepal’s communist party was named the Himalayan nation’s new prime minister Thursday, a day after the results of parliamentary elections were finalized. Khadga Prasad Oli, who also served as prime minister in 2015, was to take
Nepal to hold Federal and Provincial Elections in November
:: With the approaching constitutional deadline over completing the remaining two tier of election, the Nepal Government has written to the electoral body to make preparations for holding the federal and provincial election on November 26. The decision was made
Elephants help rescue hundreds from flooded Nepali safari park
:: Elephants helped rescue hundreds of tourists from a flooded jungle safari park in Nepal, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides after four days of heavy rain rose to 70. The Rapti River
Nepalese girl banished to ‘menstruation hut’ dies from snake bite
:: An 18-year-old girl has died in Nepal after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a shed because she was menstruating, part of a long-banned ancient Hindu practice, officials said on Saturday. Many communities in Nepal view
Nepal PM admits ‘delays’ in justice for Maoist war victims
Nepal Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the peace deal that ended a bloody Maoist insurgency as the prime minister admitted that justice for its victims has been delayed. In a TV show late Saturday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepal has done little to protect itself from next ‘big one’
Last year’s massive earthquake in Nepal killed nearly 9,000 people, yet could have been much deadlier. It was spared not by disaster preparedness, but by the calendar. It hit on a Saturday. Most children were out of school, and most
Plane goes missing in Nepal with 21 on board
Rescue teams were Wednesday scouring a remote mountainous area of Nepal where a passenger plane went missing with 21 people on board, two of them children. Tara Air said the Twin Otter aircraft had lost contact with air traffic control
Nepal’s parliament elects nation’s first female president
A Communist leader who has long campaigned for women’s rights was elected Wednesday as Nepal’s first female president. Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist received 327 votes against her opponent’s 214 in parliament on Wednesday,
Four dead in helicopter crash in quake-hit Nepal
Nepalese troops recovered four bodies after a helicopter that had been delivering relief supplies crashed Tuesday in a region devastated by twin earthquakes, the army and police said. The aircraft from Kathmandu-based Mountain Helicopters came down in a forested area
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed U.S. Marine chopper
Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the
Nepal struck by second major earthquake
Another major earthquake has hit Nepal near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit with a magnitude of 7.4 in an isolated, conservation area just after lunch Tuesday.
Rescuers find 3 survivors in Nepal 8 days after quake
An official says rescuers have found three survivors in a mountainous village in Nepal, several days since the earthquake. Surya Prasad Upadhaya, a government administrator, says two men and a woman had been pulled from the rubble near Syauli village
Death toll from Nepal earthquake passes 7,000
The death toll in Nepal from last weekend’s devastating earthquake has risen to 7,040, an official from the National Emergency Operations Centre said on Sunday. More than 14,000 other people were injured in the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit the Himalayan
Thousands of Nepalese huddle under tents
Thousands of desperate Nepalese huddled under tents and sought scarce food and medical supplies on Monday, two days after a massive quake killed more than 3,200 people and overwhelmed authorities struggled to cope with the disaster. The sick and wounded
Magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Nepal
A powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, with strong tremors felt across the Himalayan nation and parts of India. The quake struck 81 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu at 0611 GMT,
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