Nepal agrees to abolish monarchy
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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's provisional parliament approved a motion to abolish the monarchy on Friday, as part of negotiations with former Maoist rebels to underpin a fragile peace deal.
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Nepal's former communist rebels agreed Sunday to rejoin the government, officials said, signaling an end to a political crisis that led to the indefinite postponement of elections. The pact will also abolish Nepal's monarchy.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal  - Nepali King Gyanendra named  two former royalist prime ministers as deputies of his ruling  council, state radio said on Monday, in a move seen as further  tightening his grip on power in the troubled Himalayan kingdom.
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Nepal's government and Maoist rebels declared a formal end to a decade-old civil war on Tuesday in an accord they called a victory for peace and democracy in one of the world's poorest countries.
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The United Nations said it has finished registering soldiers and arms from Nepal's former Maoist rebels, a key part of a peace deal with the government to end a decade of civil war.
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Nepal's government signs a peace deal with Maoist rebels who have been fighting a 10-year insurgency in the kingdom.
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King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's coalition government and enforced an indefinite emergency, igniting charges he had staged a coup in the Himalayan outpost battling a Maoist revolt.
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Maoist leader Prachanda says he expects to be Nepal's first president after its monarchy is abolished.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov. 21 -- Nepal's government and Maoist rebels declared a formal end Tuesday to a decade-old civil war that killed about 13,000 people in one of the world's poorest countries.
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Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala says it would be  good if King Gyanendra were to abdicate.
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Nepal's King Gyanendra publicly accepts responsibility for "success and failure" under his direct rule.
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Nepal's ruling parties and communist rebels reached an agreement on an interim constitution Saturday, a crucial development in the country's peace process, officials said.
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Nepali King Gyanendra sacked the  government and assumed power on Tuesday, saying the leadership  had failed to hold elections or to restore peace amid an  escalating civil war with Maoist rebels.
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Nepal plans to relax curbs on civil rights gradually, a minister in the newly formed royalist government says.
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NEW DELHI, Sept 17: The cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed at a meeting on Friday to repeal the country&#39;s controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota).
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Nepal's multi-party government and Maoist rebels signed a landmark peace accord on Tuesday that declared a formal end to a decade-old civil war that has killed more than 13,000 people.