The Nepalese parliament has chosen KP Sharma Oli as the new prime minister, tasked with unifying the country amid domestic unrest. Oli, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), on Sunday mustered 338 votes to defeat former premier Sushil Koirala, who had resigned as required by the constitution adopted on September 20. “Today I have been elected as the prime minister. I take... 

There is very little that the entire world seems to agree upon, but there is one very frightening trend that is now taking hold literally all over the globe. There is very little that the entire world seems to agree upon, but there is one very frightening trend that is now taking hold literally all over the globe. A passionate hatred of Christianity is sweeping across the planet, and very few global... 

Nepali shamans performing a superstitious ritual in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu. Nepal police have arrested eleven villagers in connection with the murder of a 10-year-old child based on superstitious beliefs. Local media reports said on Sunday that a suspected father of a sick teenager slit the throat of a boy named, Jeevan Kohar, in a village in Nawalparasi district. The... 

Hundreds of people running of out of Kathmandu Airport as earthquake hit, May 12, 2015. At least four people are killed as a strong earthquake hit Nepal days after another quake left a trail of destruction and high casualties in the South Asian country. Aid agencies said on Tuesday that at least four people were killed in the tremor. Nepal police said at least 300 people were injured. According to... 

Dan Fredinburg was one of three Americans killed when the massive earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 3,700 people. He was given letters by friends and family when he reached the summit. The head of privacy at the secretive Google X facility was one of the 18 people killed in an avalanche at Mount Everest, triggered by the Nepal earthquake. Hundreds of foreign nationals are also... 

A door standing by the rubble of a collapsed home 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) from the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake in Pokhridada, Gorkha district, Nepal. At least 250 villagers are feared missing in a new mudslide and avalanche days after a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the South Asian country of Nepal. On Tuesday, officials said the mudslide and avalanche took place in the... 

The death toll from Nepal’s massive earthquake has surpassed 2,000 in the Himalayan country and neighboring nations as the rescue operations continue in the region. Nepalese national police spokesman Kamal Singh Ban said Sunday that the number of confirmed dead from quake had risen to 1,953 in the country. This is while officials in neighboring India said the toll from the tremor stood at 53 and... 

Nepalese residents and rescue personnel stand amid debris at the site of a landslide on the Sukoshi River in Sindhupalchowk district, August 3, 2014. A massive mudslide triggered by heavy rains has killed at least 16 people in central Nepal as several dozens more are feared buried. Officials said Monday that rescue forces are trying to find more victims through piles of rock, mud and upturned trees... 

Illegal immigrants arriving from as far away as China pay up to $30,000 to be smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico, a Border Patrol agent has revealed, highlighting the fact that people from all over the world, not just Central America, are penetrating the southern border due to lackadaisical enforcement of immigration laws. Federal agents in South Texas apprehended two groups of Chinese illegal... 

A report by an international foundation on modern slavery has revealed that nearly 30 million people are enslaved across the globe. The index released by the Walk Free Foundation (WFF) on Thursday said the slaves are either trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labor, fall victims to debt bondage, or are even born into servitude. Almost half of these people are in India, where “by far... 

The Nepalese government has teamed up with notorious agricultural giant Monsanto to force farmers use its GMO seeds. The strain, banned in several EU countries, will be used to substitute imports and boost the starving nation’s maize production. ­Corn is one of Nepal’s biggest crops but the country produces only about half of what it needs for its feed industry, and imports some 130,000 tons... 

Nepal’s newly elected Maoist Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has said he expects to complete the country’s peace process within six months. Speaking to the BBC, Dr Bhattarai said that he hoped to lead a consensus government to break political deadlock. Uncertainty has plagued Nepal since the end of the Maoist rebellion in 2006. The Maoists are the largest party in parliament but left... 

China has once again asked Nepal to curb ‘Free Tibet’ movement from its soil, later strongly upholds One China policy and believes that Tibet and Taiwan are integral parts of China. China is Nepal’s northern neighbor and Tibet shares border with Nepal along its northern side. The newly appointed Chinese envoy to Kathmandu, Yang Houlam, who considered as the senior most Chinese official to...