PTI, Kathmandu
Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala resigned today ahead of the election for the post tomorrow .
He tendered his resignation to President Ram Baran Yadav today, his office said.
Koirala, president of the largest party, Nepali Congress, was elected in February 2014. Under his leadership, Nepal successfully promulgated a new constitution.
Kejriwal sacks minister over bribery charge
AFP, New Delhi
Delhi chief minister and anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal on Friday sacked one of his ministers for alleged bribe-taking after months of criticism over multiple scandals engulfing his party.
Kejriwal used a televised press conference to announce the sacking of Asim Ahmed Khan, the capital region’s food and environment minister, over allegations that he received kickbacks from a builder for carrying out unauthorised construction.
17 killed in China restaurant blast
Reuters, Shanghai
An explosion ripped through a restaurant in eastern China on Saturday, killing at least 17 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the accident on a gas cylinder.
The blast caused a fire at the restaurant in Wuhu city in Anhui province, the report said, citing local authorities. It gave no other details.
Anti-Islam protest in Australian town
Reuters, Sydney
Hundreds of protesters faced off with left-wing opponents on Saturday in a standoff over plans to build a mosque in a rural Australian town, witnesses said, the latest anti-Islam protest since a Muslim teenager killed a police officer this month.
Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on police accountant Curtis Cheng as Cheng left police headquarters in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta on Oct. 2.
Student killed in Arizona campus urrest
AP, Flagstaff
An overnight brawl between two groups of students escalated into gun violence Friday when a freshman at Northern Arizona University opened fire on four fraternity members, killing one and wounding three. Steven Jones, an 18-year-old fraternity pledge, told police he shot the group of students only after they hit him in the face and chased him, according to court documents. He also said he tried to administer first aid to one of the victims.
China says US human rights report biased
Reuters, Beijing
A U.S. congressional commission’s criticism of China’s human rights record did not “accord with the facts”, the Chinese government said on Friday, the latest friction over a long-running thorn in relations.
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China said on Thursday that it saw in China “a disturbing deterioration in human rights and rule of law conditions that pose a direct challenge to U.S. national interests and U.S.-China relations”.
