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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...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking industrial output in the Himalayan nation after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a standoff over the integration of former rebels into the army.
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.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- India said it will resume military cooperation with Nepal and train Nepalese security personnel after cutting security ties when former King Gyanendra took power and dissolved the multi-party government in February 2005.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hunkered down at 16,000 feet above sea level, in the modest village of Lobuche, trekkers on the KarmaQuest expedition to Nepal were quick to bed but slow to sleep. By 7 p.m., almost all were zipped up in their sleeping bags, with only one or two remaining members still huddling in the common room around the faint warmth of a stove burning yak dung.
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.
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...
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...
Nepal's Communist party called a crippling nationwide strike Sunday to protest police action against squatters on government land, officials said.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Australian companies seeking cash for takeovers will account for a bigger share of local equity fundraising next year as firms emerging from the financial crisis step up acquisitions, UBS AG said.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Australian companies seeking cash for takeovers will account for a bigger share of local equity fundraising next year as firms emerging from the financial crisis step up acquisitions, UBS AG said.
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 ...
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