Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fight several wildfires in heat-battered Greece. Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home. About 2,400 visitors and locals were evacuated from Corfu from Sunday into […]
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Rival gangs fought in a prison in Ecuador, killing at least six inmates in the latest riot to hit the troubled penal system, the government said Sunday. Another 11 prisoners were injured in the new bout of violence in the Guayas 1 prison in the port city of Guayaquil overnight Saturday into Sunday, the agency […]
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CPN (UML) Chair and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has returned home on completion of his week-long visit to Cambodia. He had left for Cambodia on July 18 in connection with observation of the general election there. Oli’s entourage comprised of six persons including Radhika Shakya, party deputy general-secretary Bishnu Rimal and the Secretariat […]
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The Lively Village Project brought by the Government of the People’s Republic of China has been initiated from Sindhupalchok. The project is aimed at poverty alleviation in South Asian countries. In this connection, the Chinese government is developing Kuvinde of Sindhupalchok as the ‘lively village’. Former Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and Economic and Commercial Consular […]
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Regular works at the Far Western University Central Office have been hampered due to the weeklong lockout. The All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) close to the CPN (UML) and the National Democratic Students Union (NDSU) close to the Rastriya Prajatantra Party have padlocked the University’s central office in Mahendranagar for a week now, […]
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