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Rare One-Horned Rhino Bouncing Back in Nepal
Elephants, GPS, and digital cameras helped conservationists conduct a new rhino census that shows the endangered animals are rebounding in at least one national park.
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Guiding Himalayan treks, Nepali woman scales mountains of social taboosPokhara, Nepal - Kamala Biswakarma wears the pants in her family. |
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Millions of stateless people to benefit from recent breakthroughs, says UN agencyUnited Nations - The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed as “major breakthroughs” recent decisions by Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to grant citizenship to some three million people who live in the three Asian nations without any official identity. |
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Nepal: UN to provide emergency food for 60,000 flood victims for three monthsThe Eastern Terai, Nepal - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is sending up to three months worth of emergency rations to some 60,000 flood victims in Nepal after incessant rains over the past three weeks wrought havoc across the Himalayan country. |
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McGrath honoured for saving climber’s lifeKathmandu, Nepal - Sudbury's Meagan McGrath has been honoured for her role in saving a climber in trouble near the summit of Mount Everest. |
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Artist Turns Everest Trash Into TreasureBrunswick, Maine - Thousands of adventurers have been drawn to Mount Everest by the challenge of climbing to the top of the world. Jeff Clapp was drawn by the trash they leave behind. Inspired by a documentary about Everest's rubbish, Clapp traveled to Nepal and brought a load of discarded oxygen bottles back in 2004. |
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Nepal’s civil war ends as Maoists, government ink peace deal
KATHMANDU (AFP) - The impoverished Himalayan nation of Nepal has entered a new era as Maoist insurgents and the central government signed a peace deal ending a decade of civil war that has claimed at least 12,500 lives.
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Gov’t, rebel peace talks resume in NepalKatmandu, Nepal - Nepal's government and communist rebel leaders resumed peace talks Sunday after a four-month stall, trying to resolve a dispute over whether the guerrillas should disarm. |
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Nepalese Government Will Speed Up Peace Process With RebelsKathmandu, Nepal - Nepal's government will speed up peace talks with rebels and complete an interim constitution in an effort to end a 10-year insurgency in the Himalayan kingdom. |
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