Young men from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka are on the front lines of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Several Sri Lankans living in Russia told Al Jazeera that hundreds of their compatriots were now serving Russia’s military. A retired Sri Lankan soldier, now a recruit for Russia, told Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity that he was less worried …
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals who were recruited to fight against Ukraine and repatriate the bodies of those who died in the conflict, Nepal’s top diplomat said Thursday. The Russian army is estimated to have recruited more than 200 Nepali nationals to fight in Ukraine and at least 14 of them …
On November 20, Nepal will hold its least ideologically charged general election in its history. Deuba’s liberal centrist Nepali Congress will fight the elections — Nepal’s second since it constitutionally became a federal State in 2015 — as part of a rainbow alliance. One of his coalition partners, the Communist Party of Nepal, waged a violent underground “people’s war” for …
