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An eleven-member delegation of the World Bank Group Executive Directors (EDs) visited Nepal from October 29 to November 2, to gain a comprehensive perspective of Nepal’s current development status and future opportunities. The visit marked the 50th year of World Bank Group-Nepal engagement, with the first World Bank credit in Nepal approved by the Board on November 4, 1969. The trip was part of a larger visit to the South Asia Region that will also include stops in Bangladesh and Maldives.

China will "improve" the way Hong Kong's leader and other officials are appointed and replaced, a Chinese official said Friday.

Islamic State has confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, days after President Donald Trump announced the terrorist leader was killed during a U.S. military raid in Syria.

Less than a week after the Africa-Russia Summit, Facebook has suspended three networks of Russian accounts it says were engaging in foreign interference in Africa.

As of early Thursday, India lost one state and gained two federal territories as part of the government’s effort to take control of years of insurgency.

Mediation is “one of our most important tools to reduce and end conflict”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the sixth Istanbul Mediation Conference, in Turkey's largest city on Thursday.

Schoolchildren in eastern Aleppo in the Syrian Arab Republic return from the first day of school, passing the rubble of nearby houses.

An estimated 54 per cent of South Asian youth leave school without the necessary skills to get a decent job in the next decade, according to data produced by the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Education), the Education Commission, and UNICEF.

The world’s mountain and glacier regions are facing unprecedented challenges due to climate change, imposing a crippling effect on the people and economies that rely on them, the UN’s weather agency explained on Tuesday, ahead of a summit to address the world’s rapidly-changing water systems.

A woman attends her produce post in a market in zone 3, Guatemala City, Guatemala. (August 2009)