Nepal&#39;s poor suffer most in civil war
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Three months after King Gyanendra&#39;s reinstatement of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, whom he fired on Oct. 4, 2002, for incompetence, Nepal&#39;s political stalemate continues as civil war
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A failure to significantly reduce poverty and inequality is straining democracies across Latin America, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday.
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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More than 15,000 Nepalese have taken part in a peace rally in Kathmandu as the death toll from the country&#39;s nine-year-old Maoist conflict reached 11,000.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq now ranks as the second-most unstable country in the world, worse than war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti, and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed States index issued yesterday by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace.
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Protesters in Kathmandu have expressed disbelief and frustration after learning of the deaths of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq. Nepal&#39;s ambassador to Qatar, Somananda Suman, confirmed
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.
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Iraq now ranks as the second most unstable country in the world, ahead of war-ravaged or poverty-stricken countries such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed State index issued today by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for ...
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Despite peace overtures made this week to Nepal's Maoist rebels, the army's spokesman warned of a long and bloody battle before the guerrillas are weak enough to be forced to the negotiating table.
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In Nepal, a two-day strike called by Maoist rebels has shut down much of the country. A recent push to re-start peace talks has failed.
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The once quiet Himalayan Hindu kingdom Nepal has turned unsettled since 1996 when members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) went violent on some of their demands.
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The low-intensity civil war fought by extremists on the left and right - known as the &quot;years of lead&quot; â-as marked by waves of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings that included the 1978 murder of former prime minister Aldo Moro.
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Poverty leads to violence, the leaders of France and Brazil warned Monday in urging other nations to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor and help the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 per day.
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Nepal, home to Mount Everest, is a land where royalty and power resides in the capital while Maoists rebels stoke anger in the countryside over lack of jobs and development in one of the world's poorest nations.
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KATHMANDU: Thousands of villagers have fled districts in Nepal&#39;s remote eastern region following threats by Maoist rebels to attack the area and set up a &quot;people&#39;s government,&quot; human rights and local officials said yesterday.
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Kanaiyalal Jiwanlal, a businessman from Valsad in Gujarat, has seen sectarian violence and a killer earthquake devastate parts of the western Indian state. Compared to such upheavals, the blockade of Kathmandu, called by Maoists, holds no terror for him.