Politics

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

The Hindu

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Mr. Maduro said a judge was required by law to reject the indictment because it cannot be brought against a foreign leader

The Hindu

Lawmaker urges RI govt to expand patrols to monitor foreigners

Antara News

Lawmaker urges RI govt to expand patrols to monitor foreigners

The House of Representatives Commission XIII Chair Willy Aditya urged the Directorate General of Immigration to expand ...

Antara News

The photo of his missing daughter that Suchit cannot bear to look at

The photo of his missing daughter that Suchit cannot bear to look at

Rasuwa, September 3 Suchit Joshi of Bidur Municipality-1 was at work as usual on August 26. A staff member at Tribhuvan Trishuli Multiple Campus, Joshi was busy helping enrol undergraduate students when he received a phone call from an…

Electricity supply restored in 90% of Nuwakot after Rasuwa flood

Electricity supply restored in 90% of Nuwakot after Rasuwa flood

The aftermath of the flood. Kathmandu, September 3 Electricity supply in Nuwakot, which was disrupted following the devastating Bhotekoshi flood in Rasuwa, has been restored in around 90 percent of the district. The Ministry of Energy…

Government offers small businesses a trust tax workaround

ABC News

Government offers small businesses a trust tax workaround

Those with discretionary trusts can be exempt from the new minimum 30 per cent tax if they agree to hold their trust distributions constant.

ABC News

RNZ

Students could miss out if National Library staff cuts go ahead, librarians say

Library's services to schools could be cut by more than a third, School Library Association's president says.

RNZ

The people of France are in an extraordinary funk about their future – here’s why | Paul Taylor

The Guardian

The people of France are in an extraordinary funk about their future – here’s why | Paul Taylor

The race to succeed Emmanuel Macron is looming, but rarely has the mood been so gloomy or the lure of extremist solutions so alarming France, as the French travel writer Sylvain Tesson once noted, “is a paradise inhabited by people who…

The Guardian

Milei set to unveil Malvinas sanctions bill for firms

Buenos Aires Times

Milei set to unveil Malvinas sanctions bill for firms

President expected to announce government will send bill to Congress seeking sanctions for firms that assist or conduct activities in waters near the Malvinas Islands without Argentine authorisation. Leer más

Buenos Aires Times

Venezuela’s Maduro seeks dismissal of US charges, citing immunity

South China Morning Post

Venezuela’s Maduro seeks dismissal of US charges, citing immunity

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro urged a US judge on Wednesday to dismiss criminal drug trafficking charges against him, arguing he should be immune from prosecution as the head of a sovereign country. The charges, filed in…

South China Morning Post

The Bhotekoshi swept away Syabrubesi. Those left behind are still counting their losses

The Bhotekoshi swept away Syabrubesi. Those left behind are still counting their losses

Dawa Finjo Tamang (R) and this wife Chenga Yangjen (L). Syabrubesi, September 3 Dawa Finjo Tamang is 91 and needs support to walk. Yet since the Bhotekoshi flood swept through Syabrubesi, he has been going from house to house in his…

Russia to close branches of Germany's Goethe-Institut

Deutsche Welle

Russia to close branches of Germany's Goethe-Institut

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the move in statements carried by Russian newswires. It comes after Germany said it would close the Russian House in Berlin.

Deutsche Welle

Trump signs Bill to avert government shutdown before mid-term elections

Straits Times