Over 800,000 new voters register for Nepal post-uprising polls
Agencies : Hundreds of thousands of new voters have registered to cast their ballot in Nepal’s first polls since a mass uprising in September ousted...
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Vietnam flooding kills 90
Agencies : Heavy rain, severe flooding and landslides in Vietnam have killed at least 90 people in the last week, authorities said Sunday, leaving others...
Titanic passenger’s gold watch sells for record £1.78m at auction
NN ONLINE: A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the Titanic’s wealthiest passengers has sold for a “record-breaking” £1.78 million...
G20 summit: Developing nations demand climate action, debt relief
NN ONLINE: Poorer nations attending the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have used the meeting to push leaders on climate action and...
Trump lavishes praise on Mamdani at the White House
Reuters : After months of trading insults, US President Donald Trump and incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani smiled at each other, swapped compliments...
Former Brazil president arrested
Agencies : Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro just days before he was due to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence...
23 children die of malnutrition in Sudan’s Kordofan amid worsening famine
AP : Twenty-three children died from malnutrition-related causes within a month in Sudan’s Kordofan region, a medical group said, highlighting the severe humanitarian collapse as...
G20 ‘at risk’, struggles to resolve global crises: Macron
Agencies : The G20 group of major world economies is “at risk” as it struggles to tackle international crises, French President Emmanuel Macron told a...
Ukraine, US launching talks in Switzerland on ways to end war
Agencies : Ukraine and the US are launching talks in Switzerland on ways to end the war, a Ukrainian negotiator said on Saturday, after Washington...
Iran seeks help with fire threatening UNESCO-listed forests
Agencies : Iran has requested foreign assistance in extinguishing a large fire that has ravaged UNESCO World Heritage-listed forests in the north of the country...
Belarus pardons 31 Ukrainians under Lukashenko-Trump pact
Agencies : Belarus, a close Russian ally, pardoned 31 Ukrainian citizens, state TV said on Saturday, as part of an agreement between President Alexander Lukashenko...
EU leaders convene in South Africa as Kyiv readies US talks on Russia conflict
NN ONLINE: European leaders are set to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday to discuss alternatives...