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Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday amid escalating nationwide protests against government corruption and suppression of free speech, his aide confirmed. The resignation comes a day after at least 19 people were killed and over 100 injured during violent clashes sparked by a controversial ban on social media. “The PM has quit,” Oli’s aide Prakash Silwal told ...

Protests in Nepal have turned increasingly violent, with demonstrators setting fire to the private residence of resigned Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Tuesday, September 9. The incident took place in Balkot, near the capital Kathmandu, where a large crowd gathered demanding accountability for Monday’s deadly incident. As tensions flared, angry protesters torched the prime minister’s home. On the same ...

Nepal lifted a social media ban less than a day after anti-corruption protests that were triggered by the ban led to the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday, while a curfew was imposed in the country’s capital, Kathmandu. The government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week, Cabinet spokesperson and Communications and Information ...

As many as 14 people have died after police opened fire on a Gen Z protest in New Baneshwar, Kathmandu, as of 4PM on Monday. Seven protesters brought to the National Trauma Centre died, Dr Dipendra Pandey of the hospital confirmed. He added that 10 others are in critical condition, with gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and over ...

At least 63 people, including five soldiers, were killed on Friday night when jihadist fighters stormed the town of Darul Jamal in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, officials confirmed on Saturday. The town, located near the Nigeria-Cameroon border, had recently been repopulated by families previously living in displacement camps. The attack has raised serious questions about the Nigerian government’s policy of ...

Veteran Thai politician Anutin Charnvirakul won a vote in Parliament on Friday to become the country’s next prime minister, according to an unofficial running tally broadcast live on television. Anutin, leader of the Bhumjaithai party, won a total of 311 votes, far exceeding the 247 required majority from the House of Representative’s 492 active members. He and his government are ...

Women holding up brooms and placards attend a protest outside the parliament complex in Jakarta on Sept. 3, 2025. Photo: Reuters Hundreds of Indonesian women, dressed in symbolic pink and black, and carrying brooms, rallied in Jakarta on Wednesday to demand sweeping reforms in the country’s security forces after a violent crackdown on nationwide protests, reports Arab News. At least ...

Thailand’s acting prime minister has taken steps to dissolve parliament, his party announced Wednesday, following a major political shift in the race for the country’s top office. The move comes just days after prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was removed from office by the Constitutional Court, creating a power vacuum at the highest level of government. Her party, Pheu Thai — ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in a devastating landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a statement released late Monday by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), a rebel group that controls the affected area. The disaster occurred on Sunday at the village of Tarasin, located in the Marra mountains, following several days of heavy rainfall. The group ...

A massive rescue operation was underway in Afghanistan Monday, after a strong earthquake and multiple aftershocks flattened homes in a remote, mountainous region, killing more than 800 people, the Taliban authorities said. The earthquake struck just before midnight, shaking buildings from Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. More than 1.2 million people likely felt strong or very strong shaking, according ...