KATHMANDU: Civil servants across the country have launched a new phase of indefinite protest demanding an employee-friendly ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues.

Following news that over 300 workers from China-linked CCIC Singapore were abruptly retrenched, the firm cited frozen bank accounts and said US sanctions had a far greater impact than expected. Now ...