Nepal’s prime minister announced his long-delayed resignation Thursday, clearing the way for the formation of a new coalition government led by former communist rebels.

Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis suffered serious head injuries Wednesday in a road accident in the center of the capital while traveling in a car with a siren on, his office said.

Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis was seriously injured Wednesday in a road accident in downtown Riga, when his car and a minibus collided, his office said.

The office of Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis says he has suffered head injuries in a car crash in the center of Riga.

Parliament on Thursday rejected the nomination of one of President Rene Preval’s advisers as the next prime minister of Haiti, which has now gone two months with its No. 2 political post empty.

Haiti’s parliament has rejected the nomination of presidential adviser Robert Manuel to be the nation’s next prime minister.

Gunfire was heard behind the walls of the Republican Guard headquarters in the capital Monday a few hours after soldiers at another military base in Conakry fired shots in the air to protest the dismissal of Guinea’s prime minister last week.

An international banker whose nomination for Haiti’s No. 2 political post was rejected by the lower house of Parliament said Thursday he was hamstrung by corrupt legislators.

Haitian lawmakers say they have rejected President Rene Preval’s pick to fill the prime minister’s office.