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Kathmandu - Nepal's government Wednesday accused the Maoist former rebels of breaching the peace agreement that ended the decade-long insurgency in the Himalayan nation. It also expressed displeasure over the role of the United Nations Mission in Nep...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian children are increasingly caught in the middle of fighting between the government and communist rebels in impoverished rural areas, with at least 42 schools attacked in the past year, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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.
Photos and Story by Lars Howlett [ lars@hmbreview.com ]
Mary has a boil on her butt. Every other day her doctor makes the five-mile roundtrip trek to her home to change her dressing to no avail - the boil will not heal. The suspected reasons being was that Mary lives alone in a dirt floor hut without running water or clean linen. Also she is also old, frail and feeble, and seldom leavers her bed - another factor causing the sore to remain inflamed. I ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.----Hanesbrands Inc., which is leading an expedition to climb Mount Everest in Spring 2010, announced today that it will take a local high school student to the world’s highest mountain to help inspire other students to plan and set ambitious goals in life – their own symbolic Everests.
CLEARWATER, FL – DECEMBER 10, 2009 - Youth for Human Rights ( YHR ) http://www.youthforhumanrights.org will walk to “Embrace Diversity…End Discrimination” on December 10 th 2009, the 61 st Anniversary of the adoption of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights also known as the United Nations Human Rights Day. On this day, Clearwater, Florida becomes the US site of ...
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Wildlife officials are frantically hunting for a wild elephant which they believe is responsible for the deaths of 11 people in Nepal, Sky News reported.
Wildlife officials are frantically hunting for a wild elephant which they believe is responsible for the deaths of 11 people in Nepal.
Moscow - The director of the films Terminator and Titanic suffered a small disaster of his own when his wallet came up missing as he promoted his latest film in Moscow, local media reported. James Cameron's wallet with 600 dollars cash and a credit c...
Manila - Philippine security forces launched Wednesday an offensive against militiamen suspected of being involved in a grisly massacre of 57 people two weeks ago, a military spokesman said. Major Randolph Cabangbang said a joint team of soldiers and...
Graeham Owens Handmade Paper Products is excited to announce the launch of their new customer-focused website, www.graehamowens.com. The new website offers convenient and secure online shopping for the public as well as wholesale customers [PR.com - September 06, 2008]
Wildlife Guards Have Been on Two-Week Search For Missing Pachyderm in Country's Southern Jungles
Rosa Parks Middle School students (from left to right) Esther Lee, grade 8, Pratisha Pradhan, grade 6, and Brian Lee, grade 6, load boxes filled with toys onto a truck bound for a school in Lansing, Mich.
Nepal's former king is to be made to pay tax for the first time, the government said Wednesday, a year and a half after the world's last Hindu monarch stepped down from the throne.
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