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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...
Dublin - Ireland was Wednesday bracing itself for what is expected to be the toughest budget in the history of the state, aimed at making savings of around 4 billion euros (5.9 billion dollars). Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan is expected to annou...
London - A black cocktail dress worn by Anglo-Dutch actress Audrey Hepburn was the star attraction at this week's dazzling sale of her stylish clothes at an auction in London, fetching at total of 268,320 pounds (434,600 dollars). The black lace gown...
Hanoi - Vietnam has won a contract to export 400,000 tons of rice to the Philippines, authorities said Wednesday. Officials at the Vietnam Food Association confirmed Vietnam had won four out of six 100,000-ton lots to export to the Philippines at an ...
Baghdad - At least two people were killed and seven wounded in a fresh bombing in a northern suburb of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, police said. The blast occurred near a library in the district of al-Adhamiya, just to the north of the capital, poli...
Wildlife officials were combing the jungles of southern Nepal on Wednesday in search of a wild elephant that has killed 11 people in the past two weeks.
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Kiev - Police destroyed a suspected bomb found aboard a Russian train while it was passing through Ukraine's Kharkiv province, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday. A conductor aboard a passenger express running between the Russian city of St ...
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...
Amnesty International urged Nepal's government to arrest an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old girl to death during the country's civil war.
Elinor Ostrom condensed four decades of tireless economic legwork to 30 minutes in her Nobel Lecture.
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.
Jacksonville State University has served as the area's primary institution of higher learning since 1884. While the majority of its students have come from the local region, others have come from other areas.
Climate Change isn't all about stuffing our collective tailpipe. Restoring oceans of wilderness is just as vital to saving the planet.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking the Himalayan nation ’s economy after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a political standoff delaying the writing of a new constitution.
11:24 am CDT Oct 30, 2009 (MountEverest.net) "I wonder if I could maybe try to write a ghost story for Halloween," proposed a mountain editor, with a caution: "Problem is the scariest stories on Everest are true."
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