Kathmandu, 21 September: An advocacy workshop on empowering unprivileged women and youth groups to adapt the climate change hazards in Nepal was held in Kathmandu on Friday 21 September 2018. With the support of German International Development Cooperation GIZ and CIM, the workshop was organized by the Europe- based organization BASUG and SOLVE Nepal. The Member of National Planning Commission ...
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Twitter warns direct messages were exposed
Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year. The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter. Affected users are being notified via a message that appeared when opening the app or logging ...
Read More »3 killed in blast at Indian fireworks factory
At least three persons were killed and three others injured in an explosion that ripped through an illegal firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Saturday, police said. The mishap occurred at the firecracker unit in the state’s Rajahmahendravaram district. “The blast occurred when fireworks were being made in a thatched house this morning. Three persons ...
Read More »Philippines: At least 29 dead in Cebu landslide
The Philippines has suspended all mining operations in seven regions of the country after a new landslide killed at least 29 people near a limestone quarry on Cebu island. Rescue operations resumed on Friday after a hillside collapsed and surged down on about 24 houses in two rural villages in Naga city on Thursday. DPA news agency quoted an ...
Read More »8 Guard members killed in Iran gun attack
Gunmen attacked a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing at least eight members of the elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others, state media said. The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the wounded included a woman and a child but did not elaborate. Earlier reports described the assailants as “Takfiri,” a term ...
Read More »Roadside bombing kills 8 children in northern Afghanistan
An Afghan official says at least eight children have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion in northern Faryab province. Karim Yuresh, spokesman for the provincial police chief, says six other kids were wounded in the blast that took place late Friday afternoon in Shirin Tagab district. Yuresh says that according to a hospital report, two of the wounded ...
Read More »Brett Kavanaugh nomination: Trump challenges accuser
President Donald Trump has challenged the woman who has accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, demanding she provide evidence. Mr Trump questioned why law enforcement was not called at the time of the alleged assault, in 1982, if it was “as bad as she says”. The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh has been held up while the allegations ...
Read More »Lake Victoria Tanzania ferry disaster: Divers hunt for survivors
Volunteers have been helping rescue efforts At least 136 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, officials say. Many are missing and it is feared that more than 200 people in total may have drowned. Rescue efforts resumed on Friday after being halted overnight. The MV Nyerere ferry overturned near Ukara ...
Read More »Theresa May demands respect from EU in Brexit negotiations
Prime minister gives combative speech after EU leaders’ rejection of Chequers plan Theresa May has accused the European Union of not treating the UK with respect, in a hastily arranged Downing Street statement a day after she was humiliated at the Salzburg summit when EU leaders declared her Chequers plan would not work. A combative prime minister said she stood ...
Read More »Anti-India rebels abduct and kill 3 policemen in Kashmir
Anti-India rebels in disputed Kashmir raided over a dozen homes of police officers and abducted three whose bullet-riddled bodies were recovered Friday, officials said. The killings came days after the region’s largest rebel group asked officers to quit the Kashmiri police force and stay away from counterinsurgency operations. Militants in Kashmir have increasingly targeted police working with India’s forces, ...
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