KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The leader of the Nepal’s largest communist party, Khadga Prasad Oli, was named the Himalayan nation’s new prime minister on Sunday following the collapse of a previous coalition government. A statement issued by the president’s office said Khadga Prasad Oli will take his oath of office on Monday. Oli will be
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Sunday to respond to what she called a fresh South Korean civilian leafleting campaign, signaling North Korea would soon resume flying trash-carrying balloons across the border . Since late May, North Korea has floated numerous balloons carrying waste paper
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Over the past decade, Russia has seen a sharp increase in treason and espionage cases . Lawyers and experts say prosecutions for these high crimes started to grow after 2014 — the year that Russia illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. That’s also when Moscow backed a separatist insurgency in
LONDON (AP) — British police said Saturday they have arrested a man in connection with the deaths of two men whose remains were found in two suitcases in southwest England. The Metropolitan Police said armed officers detained a 24-year-old suspect at a train station in Bristol early Saturday. Police also said more human remains were
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An oil depot caught fire in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours, local officials said, in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region. Ukraine has in recent months stepped up aerial assaults on Russian soil, targeting refineries and oil
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Terrorism and organized crime by violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are a “pervasive threat” in Africa’s volatile Sahel region and are spilling over to West Africa’s coastal countries, the top U.N. envoy for the area warned Friday. Leonardo Simão, the U.N. special representative for the Sahel
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Mexico said they will investigate the case of a long-missing man whose body was found lying unidentified in a state morgue, despite pleas months ago to find him. The Zacatecas state prosecutor’s office said late Thursday it had “opened investigations into the situation and to determine whether any
A commemoration service was held on Friday for the victims killed in a Russian missile attack on the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital this week in Ukraine. Russia’s heaviest bombardment of the Ukrainian capital in four months severely damaged the hospital on Monday, terrorizing families and severely impacting their children already battling life-threatening diseases. (AP Video: Vasilisa
TORONTO (AP) — A retired police detective involved in the arrest 20 years ago of the husband of Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro , said Friday he was disturbed by the writer’s reaction 20 years ago when she learned her husband would be charged for sexually assaulting her daughter. Retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sam
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile announced Friday that one of the suspects being sought in the kidnapping and killing of a dissident Venezuelan soldier on Chilean soil early this year has been arrested in Costa Rica. The slaying in February caused shock in Chile, where Ronald Ojeda, a former lieutenant and self-described political prisoner, had
