Posts Tagged ‘breaking news’
On the trail of human trafficking: sex industry in Nepal
Editors Note: Harvard human trafficking fellow Siddharth Kara is undertaking a research trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking and child bondage. He will be getting access to the heart of the problem, and telling CNN.com readers what he has discovered every week over the next ten weeks. West Terai, Nepal [Read More]
Black box found at Nepal plane crash site
KATHMANDU (AFP) – Investigators searching the site of a plane crash near Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in which 14 people died have found the plane’s black box data recorder, a civil aviation official said Wednesday. The small Agni Air plane crashed in heavy rain last week on its way back to Kathmandu airport after poor visibility [Read More]
PM Nepal leaving for New York on September 17
Caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will leave for New York, USA for a week on September 17 to attend the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations, if a new Prime Minister is not elected till then. PM Nepal will attend the meeting of mountainous countries, underdeveloped countries and that on bio-diversity in the [Read More]
Our view: Election integrity
It’s been disappointing this week to see the apparently baseless claims of a tainted electoral process in the Republican primary for U.S. senator. We shouldn’t have to tell any campaign that it ought not to cry election fraud, much less attack the integrity of an opponent, without a sound basis. Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller [Read More]
PA arrests dozens of Hamas operatives over fatal attack
Palestinian Authority security forces arrested over two hundred Hamas-affiliated suspects in the Hebron area overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, on suspicion of connection with a shooting attack in Kiryat Arba which left four Israelis hours earlier. The Hamas members were being investigated by the PA forces in an effort to locate suspects in the [Read More]
Obama Speech on Iraq War Also Turns to Economic Issues, Draws GOP Fire
President Obama’s Oval Office address Tuesday evening was timed to mark the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, though it also came two months before midterm congressional elections that could hinge on the state of the domestic economy — and Obama didn’t shy from drawing links and contrasts between the two. Obama portrayed [Read More]
NEPAL: Another blow to food security
KATHMANDU, 31 August 2010 -Farmers may reap as little as half of their normal harvests this year due to late monsoon rains in Nepal, a country constantly battling malnutrition and food insecurity, the World Food Program (WFP) warns. “What we’re concerned with is the mid and far west – the hills area,” said Dominique Hyde, [Read More]
‘Nepal can be LGBTI friendly tourist destination’
Kathmandu September 01, 2010-With Nepal celebrating Nepal Tourism Year 2011 with ambitious plans of attracting more tourists, the possibility of large numbers of tourists from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenders and inter-sex (LGBTI) community visiting Nepal was highlighted in a press conference today. Speaking in a press conference, Senator Dominic [Read More]
Nepal’s food supply at risk
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 31 (UPI) — Nepal, already struggling with high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity, could see its harvests cut in half this year due to late monsoon rains, the World Food Program says. Of particular concern, said Dominique Hyde, deputy country director of WFP in Nepal, is the mid and far western [Read More]
Oval Office makeover: more taupe, same old desk
Washington D.C. August 31, 2010- The Oval Office has been redecorated! But it’s still, you know, oval. The fireplace is in the same place. It’s not that different, really. It wasn’t an extreme makeover, no matter what other people are saying. It was more of a refurbishment. Think of it as a notional episode of [Read More]
