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

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

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the onus is on North Korea to return to talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program, a rebuttal of China’s demand that the United States needs to show flexibility. North Korea has been subject to UN sanctions since 2006 over its nuclear مزید پڑھیں

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

Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande said on Thursday that there has been a slight increase in the number of Chinese troops on the border near the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, but the forces are keeping a close eye on the situation. The situation along India’s northern borders with China is stable but “unpredictable,” مزید پڑھیں

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

Airlines in the United States resumed departures and a ground stop was lifted on Wednesday after a system outage the previous night had forced a halt to all departing flights. As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix the cause of the problem, over 4,300 flights were delayed and 700 cancelled. The FAA had مزید پڑھیں

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

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

A small amount of uranium was detected in a package that arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport on Dec. 29, British police said in a statement, adding that it did not appear to be linked to any direct threat. The amount of material, detected by routine screening, was extremely small and has been assessed by experts مزید پڑھیں