Plane with 72 on board crashes, catches fire at Nepal’s Pokhara airport

At least 16 people were killed when an aircraft crashed in Nepal on Sunday, a Nepal army spokesperson said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site. According to international media reports, “we expect to recover more bodies,” the spokesperson, Krishna Bhandari, said. “The plane has broken into pieces.” A Yeti Airlines spokesperson, مزید پڑھیں

UNSC members urge Afghan Taliban to void bans on women

Several members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have urged the Afghan Taliban to end its repressive treatment of women in Afghanistan, as the group continued to impose restrictive policies on their education and work. According to international media reports, the 15-member UNSC met privately on Friday – at the request of the United مزید پڑھیں

Biden discovery undermines effort to hold Trump responsible for leaks

US President Joe Biden assured Americans on Thursday that he was cooperating fully with the investigation into the discovery of classified Obama administration documents from his personal spaces. But the US media warns that the discovery would hurt the administration’s effort to hold former president Donald Trump responsible for carrying away secret documents. Minutes before مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine response should be ‘replicated’, HRW urges governments

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts. “Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining light,” the US-based NGO’s مزید پڑھیں

Bangladesh rallies press for Hasina’s resignation

Huge crowds swarmed the streets of Bangladeshi cities on Wednesday to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and fresh elections, with public anger mounting over rising food and fuel costs. Opposition allies staged rallies in Dhaka and nine other cities — the latest of several demonstrations in recent months that have occasionally been quelled by مزید پڑھیں

Suicide blast outside Afghan foreign ministry kills 20

An suicide bomber who detonated explosives outside the foreign ministry in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Wednesday killed 20 people, according to an information ministry official. Ustad Fareedun, an official at the Taliban-run information ministry, said the bomber had planned to enter the foreign ministry but failed. “Twenty people were killed and many other injured in مزید پڑھیں