Nepal's monarchy faces new threat
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Nepal's parliament gives itself the power to abolish the monarchy if  the king interferes in forthcoming elections.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal  - Nepali human rights groups  plan the first open show of defiance against the king's seizure  of power for Thursday, saying they can stay silent no longer  and daring him to "fill the jails."
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Nepal's political transition marks sharp increases in poaching and trafficking of endangered species.
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Nepal's King Gyanendra plans to attend a summit of South Asian leaders despite his "royal coup" and declaration of an emergency in the Himalayan kingdom, an official said.
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Nepal ordered more troops and  helicopters to patrol highways and break an indefinite Maoist  blockade across the nation, a government minister said on  Sunday, in the first test of nerves since King Gyanendra took  power.
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The Nepalese prime minister has made a fresh appeal to Maoist rebels to join talks to end their insurgency. The Maoists have been engaged in an armed struggle since 1996 to replace the monarchy with a communist republic.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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NAGDHUNGA, Nepal  - Maoist rebels, fighting to  topple Nepal's constitutional monarchy, cut off all land routes  to the Himalayan kingdom's capital on Wednesday, disrupting  food and supplies to the city of 1.5 million people.
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Nepal ordered more troops to patrol highways and warned against hoarding in an effort to break a Maoist blockade across the nation, the biggest challenge so far to King Gyanendra's seizure of absolute power this month.
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Human rights groups in Nepal ask the world to intervene to end King Gyanendra's tough emergency measures.
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Nepal's government agrees for the first time to abolish the country's 240-year-old monarchy.
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Nepal ordered more troops to patrol  highways and warned against hoarding in an effort to break a  Maoist blockade across the nation, the biggest challenge so far  to King Gyanendra's seizure of absolute power this month.
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Nepal frees seven political leaders but arrests activists demonstrating against  the king.
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Nepal's King Gyanendra is forced to pay tax - reportedly for the first time in the history of the monarchy.
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Nepal has put its security forces on high alert as Maoist guerrillas threaten to blockade the capital, Kathmandu -- beginning Wednesday.
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By GRANT PECK  BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's new military-appointed government has threatened to shut down an operatic version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, ostensibly over fears one of its scenes may bring bad luck.
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King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government Tuesday and declared a state of emergency, closing off his Himalayan nation from the rest of the world as telephone and Internet lines were cut, flights diverted and civil liberties severely curtailed.