General Zhang Shengmin, the military's anti-corruption chief, joined the Politburo at a Communist Party plenum that adopted tighter discipline and had its lowest attendance since 1976.
The UN General Assembly again voted on Wednesday to condemn the US economic embargo on Cuba, a day after an angry exchange between the two countries' diplomats briefly halted the debate.
A leaderless, student-backed list has won Serbia's parliamentary election, held on Sunday, October 25, and Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat. The results are provisional.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has filed a corruption case at the Special Court against four people accused of misusing library grants at a school in Jajarkot.
The anti-graft body has filed a corruption case at the Special Court against seven people, including the former mayor and deputy mayor of Golbazar Municipality in Siraha, over market contracts and revenue.
The CIAA has filed a corruption case against 10 former officials and ward representatives of Rainas Municipality in Lamjung over the embezzlement of Rs 1.67 million in Prime Minister Employment Programme funds.
Opposition figures and former prime ministers have rounded on Prime Minister Balen Shah's administration, citing disaster negligence, selective corruption probes, and the overnight detention of former Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana.
