EU envoys urge Nepal Maoists to halt election protests
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European Union envoys urged Nepal&#39;s Maoists Thursday to halt a campaign to disrupt an impending vote on the future of the Himalayan country, warning the move could damage a 10-month-old peace process.
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Nepal police must stop using deadly force to control ethnic protests in the southeast, the United Nations, which is aiding a fragile peace process in the country, said.
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Nepal&#39;s embattled government has offered to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the capital after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and around Kathmandu.
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European Union foreign ministers appealed Friday for calm and expressed solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a school hostage crisis came to a violent end.
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European nations have requested the Maldives authorities to give them access to activists detained after last week's pro-democracy demonstrations, diplomatic sources said.
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Nepal's Maoist leader warned of mass protests in the streets of the capital Kathmandu if rebel demands for the election of a body to rewrite the country's constitution were not met.
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Political parties in Nepal will hold protests against King Gyanendra's direct rule, says an aide to the sacked PM.
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Nepal pledged action yesterday against rioters who ransacked Muslim shrines and businesses following the murder of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, amid mounting criticism over the government&#39;s failure to save the hostages.
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MOLO, Kenya  - The European Union's chief election monitor in Kenya on Friday condemned clashes that have killed hundreds and displaced thousands in the run-up to a December 27 presidential and parliamentary election.
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ELDORET, Kenya  - The European Union's chief election monitor in Kenya on Friday condemned clashes that have killed hundreds and displaced thousands in the run-up to a December 27 presidential and parliamentary election.
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KATHMANDU: Tired and angry after years of violence, tens of thousands of Nepalis marched through the capital on Monday to urge the government and Maoist rebels to start talks to end a crippling revolt.
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Nepal&#39;s Maoist rebels have temporarily called off a crippling economic blockade of the capital effective on Wednesday, saying the move was in response to popular appeals.
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Nepal's Maoist rebels threatened on   Saturday to launch street protests to press the multiparty   government for early elections to an assembly that would draw   up a new constitution.
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The country comes to a halt as the opposition calls another protest against a grenade attack that killed 18.
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Nepal came under international pressure after the United States, European Union and India recalled their ambassadors from the Himalayan outpost to protest King Gyanendra's seizure of absolute power.
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EU foreign ministers called Monday for the immediate release of hostages in Iraq and condemned violence there after a deadly weekend wave of unrest, as Iraq and Iran clouded talks in Brussels.
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Violence may erupt in volatile Pakistan in the run-up to February elections but a six-week postponement of the polls has not fuelled unrest, the head of a European Union observer mission said on Friday.