Kathmandu / AFP Nepal has lifted its months-long rationing of fuel following the end this month of a border blockade by people protesting against a new constitution, officials said on Tuesday. The months-long blockade caused a crippling shortage of fuel and other vital supplies in the landlocked Himalayan country. But members of Nepal’s ethnic Madhesi community decided to call off ...

New York / AP Argentina has reached a settlement with several bondholders for $250 million and 185 million euros, a court-appointed mediator said as the country continues work toward ending a debt crisis that has damaged its ability to maneuver financially abroad. The latest deals boost to more than $1.5 billion the amount Argentina has committed in deals since President ...

Washington / AP U.S. officials say the Pentagon’s long-awaited plan to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer the remaining detainees to a facility in the United States calls for up to $475 million in construction costs that would ultimately be offset by as much as $180 million per year in operating cost savings. The plan, ...