KATHMANDU, Nov 14: The Japanese government expects to take in some 345,000 foreign workers through fiscal 2023 to make up for the country's labor shortage, media reports said on Wednesday.

VIRGINIA, Nov 14: CIA report obtained by the ACLU lays bare the details of the agency's "enhanced interrogation" program, including tactics so disturbing even CIA agents were reluctant to implement them.

BROOKLYN, Nov 14: Drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman had been framed by corrupt US and Mexican officials who let his chief lieutenant remain at large to lead the Sinaloa cartel instead, his defense claimed, at the start of the high-profile trial.

Asian leaders push toward pacts on South China Sea, trade

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:46 AM NPT By: Associated Press

SINGAPORE, Nov 14 : Leaders from Southeast Asia, China and other neighboring countries met in Singapore on Wednesday and cited progress on keeping peace in the contentious South China Sea as evidence that the region is managing to handle such issues on its own.

Sri Lanka crisis deepens with no-confidence motion passed against PM

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:34 AM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, Nov 14 : Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government on Wednesday, opposition lawmakers said, throwing the country deeper into crisis.

CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 : Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks.

WASHINGTON, Nov 13: Don’t hire someone you can’t fire, like the son of a campaign donor or the child of the mayor. No matter what you may have said during the campaign about changing Congress, hire enough Hill veterans to make the office run smoothly.

California wildfires rage, death toll at 42, hundreds missing

Published On: November 13, 2018 12:34 PM NPT By: Agencies

PARADISE, Nov 13: At least 42 people have been killed in the wildfire raging in Northern California, making it the deadliest fire in the state's history.

Ongoing Israeli airstrikes against Gaza kill 3 Palestinians

Published On: November 13, 2018 11:48 AM NPT By: Agencies

GAZA, Nov 13: Israeli ongoing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip resulted in the death of three Palestinians, and at least five others were wounded as reported by the Palestinian state agency Wafa Monday.

China postpones on allowing tiger bone, rhino horn trading

Published On: November 13, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: Associated Press

BEIJING, Nov 13 : China is postponing its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts a bare two weeks after the easing of the ban had raised fears the country was giving legal cover to poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife.