tag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/17/Nepalese_noodle_seller_became_billionaire_a5c5

Run by Maoist revolutionaries and plagued by poverty, Nepal is not the most obvious place to make big bucks.

2013-03-17T06:14:36ZAFP South Asian Editionby Kyle Knighttag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/14/Chief_justice_sworn_oversee_Nepal_2c39

Nepal's chief justice was sworn in Thursday as head of an interim government tasked with steering the country towards elections by June after a cross-party deal broke a 10-month political deadlock.

2013-03-14T12:33:31ZAFP South Asian Editionby Deepak Adhikaritag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/13/Nepal_appoints_leader_oversee_June_e21c

Nepal's Supreme Court chief justice was named head of government Wednesday in a cross-party agreement handing him the task of trying to lead the country toward elections in June.

2013-03-13T17:37:58ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/13/Nepals_prime_minister_expected_step_15c4

Nepal's Maoist prime minister was expected to step down late Wednesday after the party's spokesman said an agreement to end months of political deadlock had been reached.

2013-03-13T16:30:56ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/12/Polish_Catholics_want_pope_bring_95ac

As the Vatican prepares for the election of a new pontiff, Polish Catholics are hoping that Benedict XVI's successor will be a conservative, but a more reformist one.

2013-03-12T17:07:23ZAFP Global Editionby Damien Simonarttag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/05/Castro_Chavez_father-son_bond_until_9260

In the end, the aging mentor outlived his socialist protege.

2013-03-05T22:34:03ZAFP Global Editionby Anna Pelegritag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/25/Castro_picks_young_heir_take_fedd

President Raul Castro has been re-elected to what he vowed would be his last term in office, and unveiled a 52-year-old political heir tasked with securing the future of the communism in Cuba after 2018.

2013-02-25T13:17:43ZAFP Global Editionby Francisco Jaratag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/22/Maoist_attack_kills_police_eastern_8a74

Maoist rebels killed six policemen Friday in a landmine attack in the eastern Indian state of Bihar in their second deadly attack on security forces in recent weeks, police said.

2013-02-22T12:57:38ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/20/Revamped_historic_Czech_breweries_back_6e97

Rising from the ashes after closure or near-collapse, historic Czech breweries are getting back on tap with new owners seeking to tickle the taste buds of the world's greatest beer lovers with exotic new flavours.

2013-02-20T07:55:48ZAFP Global Editionby Jan Flemrtag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/08/Nepal_Maoists_first_post-war_convention_cdfc

The head of Nepal's ruling Maoists on Friday pledged that the country was headed towards elections after he cemented his position as leader at the end of the party's biggest post-revolutionary meeting.

2013-02-08T19:25:01ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/07/Nepal_Maoists_propose_chief_justice_2323

Nepal's ruling Maoists on Thursday proposed that the chief justice be appointed prime minister and preside over parliamentary elections, calling it the only option to resolve a long-running political crisis.

2013-02-07T11:52:02ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/02/Nepals_Maoists_favour_independent_60b8

Nepal's Maoists vowed Saturday never to return to guerrilla warfare and offered to give up leadership to an independent prime minister to take the Himalayan nation towards democracy.

2013-02-02T16:31:38ZAFP South Asian Editionby Deepak Adhikaritag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/02/Nepal_Maoists_stage_first_post-war_12f4

Thousands of Nepal's former rebel Maoists gathered for their biggest show of strength since taking up arms in a 10-year insurgency and toppling the world's last Hindu monarchy.

2013-02-02T07:14:42ZAFP Asian Editionby Deepak Adhikaritag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/02/01/Nepal_Maoists_stage_first_post-war_12f4

Thousands of Nepal's former rebel Maoists are due to gather Saturday for their biggest show of strength since taking up arms in a 10-year insurgency and toppling the world's last Hindu monarchy.

2013-02-01T21:44:33ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/01/27/Bulgaria_nuclear_referendum_fail_5ca4

A vote on whether to build a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the EU member's first referendum since the end of communism in 1989, looked set to fail Sunday because of insufficient turnout.

2013-01-27T22:38:01ZAFP Global Editionby Diana Simeonovatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/01/24/Clinton_says_will_social_media_7000

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Wednesday that the United States would use the Internet and social media in its fight against Al-Qaeda and other extremist Islamist groups.

2013-01-24T14:55:27ZAFP American EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/01/23/Jozef_Glemp_former_head_Church_55f1

Jozef Glemp, the cardinal who served as the head of the Church in deeply Catholic Poland from 1981 to 2009, died Wednesday after a long battle with lung cancer, a spokesman said. He was 83.

2013-01-23T23:17:23ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/01/10/Maoists_plant_bomb_dead_Indian_033b

Maoist rebels planted a bomb inside the stomach of an Indian policeman killed during clashes in the eastern state of Jharkhand, a hotbed of left-wing extremism, police said on Thursday.

2013-01-10T16:40:35ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/01/08/Maoists_kill_seven_policemen_eastern_ed25

Indian Maoist rebels have shot dead seven policemen in the eastern state of Jharkhand, a hotbed of left-wing extremism, police said on Tuesday.

2013-01-08T13:55:24ZAFP South Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/12/23/Poland_braces_economic_slowdown_fbbf

Proud of having been the only EU member state to keep growing as the crisis torpedoed economies across the bloc, Poland is bracing for a slowdown in 2013 as exports suffer and austerity measures bite.

2012-12-23T06:23:18ZAFP Global Editionby Michel MROZINSKI