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Of our colleagues. We know it has not been the right way to return, so we are not in a position to say ok, now you come back. This is a process. We are happy because it is true some changes are taking place. Weve reached another stage. Little by little, things are changing and we support our team mates, as we have all this time. The pick of Wednesdays Champions League fixtures sees a stuttering Manchester United travel to germany to take on bayern munich, with the english team taking on the engl...

Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, 11 00pm in london and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where the response to Donald Trumps first speech to the us Congress Since taking office has been largely positive. The president has himself tweeted to simply say thank you. And the Financial Markets seemed to approve, with the Dowjones Closing at a record high, an apparent endorsement of his calls for a massive Infrastructure Investment programme. The battle now for the president will be how much...

Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, 11 00pm in london and 8 00pm in the evening in washington, where the response to Donald Trumps first speech to the us Congress Since taking office has been largely positive. The president has himself tweeted to simply say thank you. And the Financial Markets seemed to approve, with the Dowjones Closing at a record high, an apparent endorsement of his calls for a massive Infrastructure Investment programme. The battle now for the president will be how much...

Back in 1990 AD (2046 BS), after the people’s movement had established multiparty democracy, a new constitution of the country was drafted quietly by a handful of lawmakers, all hailing from the dominant khas arya community. They decided to continue Nepal as a Hindu state after the then king had abdicated absolute monarchy.

Stephen Scourfield looks at a great event and magnificent venue

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the last country to introduce television, made waves last year with a film director who walked the red carpet of the Oscars."The film delves into the advent of democracy in Bhutan, coinciding with the onset of modernisation and the influence of television," Dorji said of his movie "The Monk and the Gun".

Fifty one men and eight women were elected to Eswatini's parliament in last week's election, with a strong showing for pro-royalist candidates in results expected to make little difference to the politics of Africa's last absolute monarchy. The southern Africa nation has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986, when he inherited the crown from his father, Sobhuza II. It went to the polls on Friday to elect politicians who effectively function as the king's advisers with no e...

The small southern African nation of Eswatini held elections Friday to decide part of the makeup of its Parliament, even as its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power, political parties are banned and elected representatives can merely advise a monarch whose family has reigned supreme for 55 years. Eswatini, wedged between South Africa and Mozambique, is the last absolute monarchy in Africa and one of the few remaining in the world. King Mswati III, 55, has been the monarch since 1986, ...

Voting is under way in Eswatini, but in Africa's last absolute monarchy, MPs have little power.

Relatives of Saudis facing heavy sentences for social media posts are calling on the kingdom's de facto ruler to take action after he voiced shame over their cases. A Saudi official, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, told AFP that harsh sentences for social media posts were the work of conservative judges who wanted "to embarrass the crown prince in front of the world."