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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...
NEPALGUNJ, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Barely a year ago, Lalita Rai, 22, travelled to Kuwait escorted by a local job broker, who had promised her a good position at a beauty parlour. Instead she was tricked into working as an unpaid servant for a local household.
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KATMANDU, NEPAL — Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
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Devotees lined up outside a Hindu temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday at the start of a two-day religious celebration involving the sacrificial slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals.
BARIYAPUR, Nepal - The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn today and then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo...
200,000 Buffaloes, Goats, Chickens and Pigeons to Be Killed for Hindu Festival
The Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio inmate fighting the state's new execution procedure is asking a federal court to intervene.
BILLINGS — Harriet Dusenberry was a world away from Montana whenshe hired an artist to illustrate an album of Christmas memoriesfrom her childhood.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.
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Kathmandu, Nov 21 (PTI) Nepal's Maoists today decided to end its blockade of the parliament so as to allow the government to pass the crucial budget, but planned to go ahead with the next phase of their agitation to dislodge the coalition in a dispute over "civilian supremacy".
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA,Associated Press Writer KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. A Nepalese minister said it was the largest sacrificial slaughter of animals in the world.
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