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Nepal’s former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki is set to become the country’s interim prime minister after deadly anti-corruption protests ousted the government. Karki, 73, will be the first woman to lead the impoverished Himalayan nation after a deal was reached with the protest leaders for her to be sworn in. More than 50 people were killed in clashes ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for conspiring to overthrow President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022. Four of the five judges ruled him guilty on all charges, while one favored acquittal. The 70-year-old Bolsonaro, who led Brazil from 2019 to 2022, is currently under house arrest. Seven others, including former ...

US conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at a Utah university, sparking a manhunt for a lone sniper who the governor said had carried out a political assassination. Authorities said they still had no suspect in custody as of Wednesday night, some eight hours after the midday shooting ...

President Donald Trump issued a rare public rebuke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday following an Israeli strike targeting Hamas operatives in Qatar. Trump emphasized that he had no prior knowledge of the attack and expressed concern over its timing and implications for ongoing peace negotiations. Speaking to reporters during an unusual visit to a Washington, D.C. restaurant, ...

Flames engulf Singha Durbar palace, home to Nepal’s government and parliament buildings. Photo: Narendra Shrestha/EPA Following the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli amid intense nationwide protests, hundreds of demonstrators stormed Nepal’s Parliament on Tuesday and set the main building on fire. The escalation came a day after security forces opened fire on protesters attempting to breach parliament premises ...

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 ...