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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 11:31 pm ET
Kathmandu - At least five people, including a police officer, were killed after violent clashes erupted between police and Maoist supporters in western Nepal, media reports said Saturday. The clashes erupted Friday after police tried to evict thousan...
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IRIN - Fri Dec 4, 5:45 am ET
KATHMANDU, 4 December 2009 (IRIN) - A deadlock in Nepal's peace process is threatening development and stability in the country, say aid workers and analysts.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 3:01 am ET
Kathmandu - Nepal's cabinet held a meeting at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday and called on rich nations to take more responsibility for the effects of global warming and climate change. The meeting, considered the highest in the world, was cal...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 1:17 am ET
Kathmandu - Nepal's cabinet held a meeting at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday to highlight the effects of climate change on the Himalayas ahead of the upcoming global climate summit in Copenhagen. Twenty-four ministers, including Prime Minister...
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 10:46 pm ET
Kathmandu - Nepalese ministers met at the base camp of Mount Everest Friday ahead of the schedule cabinet meeting to highlight impact of global warming on the Himalayan Mountains, news reports said. Government-owned Nepal television said 24 ministers...
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AP via Yahoo! News - 20 minutes ago
Hundreds of protesters torched vehicles and vandalized shops in western Nepal on Saturday after three people died in clashes between police and illegal forest settlers, a human rights group said, amid heightened political tensions in the Himalayan nation.
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CNN - Fri Dec 4, 9:14 am ET
Nepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
The United States is deeply concerned about the stalled peace process in Nepal, three years after the end of a decade-long civil war, a US embassy statement said Saturday.
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USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 12:06 pm ET
Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks.
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Denver Post - Sat Dec 5, 3:22 am ET
Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's U.N. climate-change talks.
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MSNBC - Fri Dec 4, 7:38 am ET
Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and held a Cabinet meeting amid the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers. Mount Everest - GlobalWarming - Nepal - Mountaineering - Environment
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 1:59 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 2:10 am ET
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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UPI - Fri Dec 4, 2:33 am ET
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and his Cabinet met Friday on Mount Everest to highlight the adverse impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
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FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 4, 11:48 am ET
SYANGBOCHE, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's government calls it the world's highest Cabinet meeting.