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Members of a UN monitoring team (C) register Maoist fighters, during a weapons and personnel registration function, at a camp in Chitwan, some 200 km southwest of Kathmandu, January 17. Nepal’s once feared Maoist forces began putting their weapons under United Nations supervision. a key part of a peace deal in the Himalayan country, a Maoist leader said. Arms were handed over for UN inspection and recording, and then each Maoist cadre placed his weapon in a container in a UN enclosure, an official from the world body said. “It is not a surrender of weapons — it’s the Maoists storing the weapons in UN containers,” a UN official said. AFP

Separatist rebels threaten more bloodshed in Assam

A separatist group in India's insurgency-hit northeast, blamed for killing scores of Hindi-speaking people, warned migrant workers Thursday to quit the region and threatened to step up violence.

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N.Korea reaches 'a certain agreement' with US

Talks between North Korean and U.S. chief nuclear envoys in Berlin this week reached "a certain agreement", the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday, praising the direct dialogue between the two bitter foes.

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Nepal Maoists dissolve parallel governments

Nepal's Maoists dissolved their "people's government" which had controlled large swathes of the Himalayan nation as part of a peace deal to end a bloody decade-long insurgency.

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