Kathmandu, Dec 3 (IANS) As nearly two-dozen Nepal ministers Thursday flew to the mountainous north to hold the first cabinet meeting ever in the lap of Mt Everest, nine western diplomats based in Kathmandu said they would head for the southern plains to seek justice.
The ambassadors and heads of mission from nine countries, the European [...]
Islamabad, Nov 13 (DPA) Some Western diplomats are attaching dummy bombs to their vehicles to test the alertness of Pakistan police amid deteriorating security caused by suicide attacks, a media report said Friday.
The interior ministry said an ‘unidentified object’ found recently in the vehicle of Danish embassy security advisor Chris John turned out to be [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 3 (IANS) Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas, who have kept up a siege on parliament since May and Monday launched fresh street protests against the coalition government, finally capitulated to growing pressure from the international community and called off their proposed blockade of the airport next week.
The European Union, the US and Russia Tuesday [...]
Kabul, Oct 19 (DPA) A UN-backed Election Complaints Commission announced Monday its verdict on contested ballots from the Aug 20 Afghan presidential election, but it was not known if the rulings would push the country to a runoff vote.
‘The ECC has finalised all of its decisions with respect to polling and counting for the presidential [...]
Tehran/Vienna, Oct 19 (DPA) Iran will independently enrich uranium to levels beyond what is needed for basic power generation if talks in Vienna on a plan to process the country’s nuclear fuel abroad fail, the spokesman of the Iranian Atomic Organisation stressed Monday.
Ali Shirzadian spoke in Tehran ahead of Monday’s multilateral meeting at the International [...]
Kabul, Oct.12 (ANI): UN envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide has finally acknowledged that some of the votes cast in the August 20 presidential elections were fraudulent, but has denied claims by former deputy Peter Galbraith of an attempted cover-up
Addressing a news conference in Kabul, The Telegraph quoted [...]
London, Oct.9 (ANI): Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will meet Western diplomats to discuss sanctions imposed against the military-ruled country, junta officials have said.
The Nobel Prize winner, who remains under house arrest, was driven to a government [...]
Yangon, Oct 9 (DPA) Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi Friday held a rare meeting with foreign diplomats, presumably to discuss Western sanctions imposed on the state, sources said.
Suu Kyi was escorted from her home-cum-prison Friday morning to the state-owned Seinle Kantha Guesthouse where she met US Deputy Head of Mission Thomas Vajta, British [...]
Yangon, Oct 7 (DPA) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Wednesday with a representative of the ruling junta to discuss her proposals to get sanctions dropped against the regime that has kept her under house arrest for 14 years, sources said.
Relations Minister Aung Kyi met the Nobel laureate at the Seinle Kantha Guesthouse [...]
