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Nepal, China sign Rs15 b grant deal

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Dec 30, 2016- <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6;">Nepal and China on Thursday signed a bilateral assistance agreement for Rs15.7 billion (RMB 1 billion) to be used in Nepal for repair and improvement of the Syaphrubesi-Rasuwa-gadhi highway, upgradation and renovation of the Civil Service Hospital, and post-disaster reconstruction projects agreed between the two governments.</span></div>
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The grant agreement was signed and exchanged by Leela Mani Paudyal, ambassador of Nepal to the People’s Republic of China, and  Zhang Xiangchen, the Chinese vice minister for commerce, on behalf of their respective governments.</div>
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Nepal, China sign Rs15 b grant deal

Dec 30, 2016- Nepal and China on Thursday signed a bilateral assistance agreement for Rs15.7 billion (RMB 1 billion) to be used in Nep...

Russia plane crash: Huge search for bodies in Black Sea

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Dec 26, 2016- A huge search operation is continuing "round the clock" in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea.</div>
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More than 3,000 people on ships, jets, helicopters and submersibles are involved in the operation near Sochi.</div>
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The Tu-154 plane - carrying soldiers, members of a famed army music ensemble and reporters - was heading for Syria.</div>
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All those on board are feared dead after Sunday's crash. Monday has been declared a national day of mourning.</div>
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Search teams - including 109 divers - worked through the night, Russian officials said.</div>
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Defence ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov earlier said the operation would continue "non-stop".</div>
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He added that powerful spotlights were being used to search for plane debris.</div>
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Officials said they were were focusing on the area of 10.5 sq km (four square miles) just off the coast.</div>
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"Fragments of the Tu-154 plane of the Russian defence ministry were found 1.5km (one mile) from the Black Sea coast of the city of Sochi at a depth of 50m to 70m (165-230ft)," the defence ministry said.</div>
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Earlier on Saturday, 11 bodies had been recovered.</div>
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Russia plane crash: Huge search for bodies in Black Sea

Dec 26, 2016- A huge search operation is continuing "round the clock" in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people ...

UML had no proposal on severing Tarai and mountain-Oli

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Dec 26, 2016- CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has claimed that his party had never-ever put forward the proposal for severing Tarai and mountainous districts.<br />
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At an interaction programme held on Monday with lawmakers and intellectuals of Tarai-Madhes on 'Madhes Problems: Reality and Misconception', Chairperson Oli pointed out the need of amendment to the federal structure of province number 2 in the constitution.<br />
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Leader Oli claimed this when there were media reports that UML was also involved in the making of proposal to alter districts in the existing province number 5.<br />
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There are recommendations to integrate mountainous districts including Udayapur, Sindhuli and Makawanpur and interior Madhes in the province number 2, Oli said, accusing Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) of making the proposal to protect their regime.<br />
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He further said that it was an ill attempt to portray UML as anti-Madhes party and urged his party leaders and cadres to reach out to their respective regions with high morality. RSS<br />
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UML had no proposal on severing Tarai and mountain-Oli

Dec 26, 2016- CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has claimed that his party had never-ever put forward the proposal for severing Tarai and ...

NRA staff agree to return to work

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Dec 27, 2016- <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6;">The protesting technical staff of the National Reconstruction Authority, who announced their collective resignation last week, have decided to return to work after the government assured them of addressing their demands.</span></div>
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In a meeting with government officials on Sunday, representatives of the 1,200 engineers, overseers and sub-overseers from 11 worst quake-hit districts agreed to resume works to facilitate the rebuilding of private houses after the authorities agreed to address their demands.</div>
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“We started moving to the respective districts from Monday. Almost everyone will be on the field by Tuesday,” said Sanjib Amgai, an engineer working in Gorkha.</div>
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According to him, the technical staff decided to call off their protest and revoke their decision to resign en masse after the authorities agreed to raise their allowances by 75 percent, provide health insurance, proper office facilities and security.</div>
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The two sides also agreed to address the complaints of the needy families in the districts and to approve the amended draft guidelines for distributing the second and third tranches of the rebuilding aid to more than 700,000 homeless families.</div>
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The Central Level Project Implementation Unit under the Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of Finance, along with the NRA, all responsible for carrying out post-earthquake reconstruction works, met with the technical staff to hear their grievances.</div>
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“The engineers and other technical staff have agreed to return to work. We hope the rebuilding works, along with the monitoring of the under-construction housing structures in the affected districts, will be expedited now onwards,” said Chandra Shrestha, an executive member of the NRA.</div>
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According to him, the proposal to increase allowances based on performance, health insurance and office facilities had already been approved. It would be implemented after the nod from the Prime Minister’s Office.</div>
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Around 2,400 engineers and technical staff were mobilised after the disaster to facilitate the rebuilding of quake-resistant houses in affected settlements.</div>
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Even as the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has decided to collect electronic data of the earthquake victims in Palpa district until February, hundreds of quake victims in the district are bracing for another winter under the temporary huts. </div>
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Quake survivor Umesh Gaha of Salahakot-9 said the majority of the families displaced by last year’s devastating quake have been living under the temporary huts for almost two years. “There are 55 families living under temporary shelters in Koldanda and 49 in Salahakot,” said Gaha.</div>
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The conditions of quake victims in Galdha, Kaseni and Jalpa, among other areas, are no different. Rudra Bahadur Sunari, a quake victim from Galdha-1, said they are struggling with cold and extreme heat under the huts for the last 20 months. “Some of the people have built houses on their own, but most of the victims are still waiting for the housing reconstruction aid,” he said. </div>
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Palpa is among the 17 districts that the NRA categorised as having suffered minimum damages in the disaster. The quake victims in the district are in a dilemma whether to rebuild houses themselves or wait for government help. </div>
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According to the district-based statistics office, the electronic data collection will be conducted until February 26. </div>
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Anirudra Upadhaya, an official at the statistics office, said they are going to start collecting data by mobilising 32 engineers in 60 VDCs and two municipalities. Citing the District Natural Disaster Rescue Committee record, Chief District Officer Baburam Gautam said around 11,345 families were affected by the quake.</div>
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NRA staff agree to return to work

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On poll ground, PM pressed from all sides

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Dec 27, 2016- <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6;">A fresh push for local elections from the Nepali Congress has put Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in a fix, signalling trouble for the coalition formed with a promise to end the Madhes crisis and hold three tiers of elections by January, 2018.</span></div>
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The NC on Monday put forth a four-point roadmap for ending the current stalemate. The NC leadership claims that announcing the date for local elections would automatically open the way for political consensus on the amendment bill and other issues related to implementation of the constitution.</div>
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Before holding the elections, PM Dahal’s biggest challenge will be to take two opposite blocs--the main opposition UML and the Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha--on board as both of them have hardened their positions on constitution amendment.</div>
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The UML and some smaller parties in the opposition bench are hell bent on blocking the amendment bill registered by the government. They want the governing coalition of the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Nepali Congress to roll back the proposal registered on September 29 before announcing the local election date. UML Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai told the Post that the government should at least agree to put the amendment bill on hold.</div>
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Amid mounting pressure from all sides, PM Dahal finds himself in a position not to appease both the parties. If he chooses to take the UML into confidence, he risks losing the support of the Madhes-based parties and vice versa.</div>
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PM’s close aides said the government is in a wait and see mode. They said the government would wait for green signals from both the sides for elections. </div>
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PM Dahal’s close aides said the government cannot afford to alienate the Madhes-based parties in its pursuit of consensus with the UML. Chakrapani Khanal, Dahal’s chief political adviser, said tabling the amendment bill remains the government’s top priority.</div>
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“The government wants to at least table the bill before going for the polls because it’s important to take the Madhesi Morcha into confidence for holding the election. The fate of election is interlinked with the amendment bill,” Khanal told the Post, adding that the government would rather hang on for some months if the situation did not change. </div>
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The regional parties have said they will take part in the elections only if the bill is endorsed by Parliament with necessary changes. They have partly supported the bill and demanded revision to clauses pertaining to redrawing the federal boundaries for full ownership.</div>
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Some Madhesi leaders said the Morcha would accept the polls irrespective of how the constitution amendment bill fares in the House once it is put up for vote.</div>
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“The bill should be tabled in Parliament for discussion and put to a vote without further delay,” said Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato.</div>
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Morcha leaders fear that the government may announce the elections by deactivating the amendment bill. They have warned that such a step would invite confrontation and push the country towards renewed conflict.</div>
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Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party Vice-chairman Hridayesh Tripathi said three major parties should work together to endorse the bill if they are really serious about holding the elections on time. In that case, Morcha would also take part in the polls, he added.</div>
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“But it would be a big mistake to announce an election under the given circumstances. How will the government hold the local elections in those districts where it couldn’t even demarcate the local boundaries?” questioned Tripathi.</div>
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Berlin attack: Police uncertain detained suspect drove lorry

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"It is in fact uncertain whether that really was the driver," Berlin police head Klaus Kandt said on Tuesday.</div>
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The man detained, who has denied involvement, arrived in Germany from Pakistan at the end of last year.</div>
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He was captured in a park 2km away after reportedly fleeing the popular Christmas market in west Berlin.</div>
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Mrs Merkel has vowed to punish those responsible for the Berlin attack "as harshly as the law requires".</div>
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Berlin attack: What we know</div>
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Her open-door policy on migration, which saw 890,000 asylum seekers arrive in Germany last year, has divided the country, with critics calling it a security threat.</div>
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Three separate terrorist attacks in July carried out by refugees have heightened tensions.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What happened?</span></h2>
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The lorry ploughed through the popular market at Breitscheidplatz, near west Berlin's main shopping street on Monday evening.</div>
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The truck, which was loaded with steel beams, veered into the market at 20:14 local time (19:14 GMT), one of its busiest times. It crashed through wooden huts and stands packed with tourists and locals.</div>
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The DPA news agency said police believe the lorry drove 50-80 metres (160-260 ft) through the market area.</div>
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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said 18 of the 48 people injured were in a serious condition.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What do we know about the suspect?</span></h2>
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Doubts are being cast over whether the suspect in custody was the driver of the lorry, with Berlin police tweeting for people to stay alert.</div>
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Mr de Maiziere said the arrested man had arrived in Germany on 31 December last year, and later turned up in Berlin in February. His asylum application had not been completed, he added.</div>
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German media have identified the man, citing security sources, as a 23-year-old named Naved B.</div>
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He was reportedly known to police for minor crimes, but not terror links.</div>
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Special forces earlier stormed a hangar at Berlin's defunct Tempelhof airport, where they believed he had been living in a shelter.</div>
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He was seized after leaving the lorry and fleeing on foot for more than a mile (2km) towards the Tiergarten, a large public park.</div>
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A witness who followed him called the police, who quickly detained the suspect near the Victory Column monument.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where did the lorry come from?</span></h2>
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Police said a Polish man, believed to be the original driver, had been found dead on the passenger seat.</div>
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Ariel Zurawski, the Polish owner of the lorry, confirmed that his driver was missing and had been unreachable since 16:00 (15:00 GMT) on Monday.</div>
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The truck was registered in Poland, but it is unclear whether it was travelling from Poland or returning from Italy, as some reports suggest.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">How has Germany reacted?</span></h2>
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Chancellor Merkel said she was "shocked and very saddened" by the attack but added "we don't want to live with fear of evil".</div>
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Germany's interior ministry said Christmas markets in Berlin would remain closed on Tuesday but other markets outside of the capital would operate as normal.</div>
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A senior member of Germany's anti-immigration AfD party, Marcus Pretzell, blamed Mrs Merkel for the attack, linking it to her open-door migration policy.</div>
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Horst Seehofer, the leader of Mrs Merkel's sister party in Bavaria, urged the chancellor "to rethink our immigration and security policy and to change it" in the wake of the attack.</div>
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Your questions on security in public spacesAustralian Trisha O'Neill told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation she witnessed "blood and bodies everywhere".</div>
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"I just saw this huge black truck speeding through the markets crushing so many people and then all the lights went out and everything was destroyed."</div>
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'I heard the noise and the screams'</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is this the first such attack?</span></h2>
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A series of small-scale attacks by Islamist militants alarmed Germany this year. Ten people were killed and dozens more injured in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg in July.</div>
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A year of terror in Germany</div>
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But Monday's incident was reminiscent of the lorry attack on Bastille Day crowds in the French city of Nice on 14 July, claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS).</div>
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The mayor of Nice, Philippe Pradal, said  the Berlin incident shared the same "blind violence" as the attack on his city.</div>
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Both IS and al-Qaeda have urged their followers to use trucks as a means to attack crowds.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What do eyewitnesses say happened?</span></h2>
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A British eyewitness, Mike Fox, told Associated Press that the 25-tonne lorry had missed him by only about three metres as it smashed through stands.</div>
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"It was definitely deliberate," said the tourist.</div>
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He said he had helped people who appeared to have broken limbs, and that others were trapped under Christmas stands.</div>
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Australian Trisha O'Neill told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation she witnessed "blood and bodies everywhere".</div>
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"I just saw this huge black truck speeding through the markets crushing so many people and then all the lights went out and everything was destroyed."</div>
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'I heard the noise and the screams'</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Is this the first such attack?</span></h2>
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A series of small-scale attacks by Islamist militants alarmed Germany this year. Ten people were killed and dozens more injured in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg in July.</div>
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A year of terror in Germany</div>
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But Monday's incident was reminiscent of the lorry attack on Bastille Day crowds in the French city of Nice on 14 July, claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS).</div>
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The mayor of Nice, Philippe Pradal, said the Berlin incident shared the same "blind violence" as the attack on his city.</div>
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Both IS and al-Qaeda have urged their followers to use trucks as a means to attack crowds.</div>
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US President-elect Donald Trump blamed "Islamist terrorists" for a "slaughter" of Christians in the German capital.</div>
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"Today there were terror attacks in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany - and it is only getting worse. The civilized world must change thinking!" he tweeted.</div>
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Can some food really make you sleepy??

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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">Roast turkey tends to get most of the blame for causing drowsiness. And anyone who has had their fill at Thanksgiving or Christmas is probably familiar with the sleepy feeling that arrives afterwards. But is it fair to blame the turkey?</span></div>
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The reason it’s a prime candidate for sleepiness is that it contains the substance L-tryptophan. But other foods have more. Sea lion kidney, for example, or if you are looking for something more everyday, egg white, cod or pork chops. I can’t think of a recipe that combines all these ingredients, but even if you were to succeed in finding one, it wouldn’t necessarily have soporific effects.</div>
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The idea that some meals make you drowsier than others may not be entirely true. To understand why, you need to understand how the body and brain absorb nutrients from food.</div>
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L-tryptophan is an essential amino acid. The body can’t produce it and must obtain it from the diet in order to use it as a building block to make serotonin. This is the neurotransmitter we sometime hear associated with happiness, but it also makes fruit flies sleepy and might promote slow-wave sleep in humans.</div>
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This would suggest that taking tryptophan can help you sleep and indeed when it’s taken as a pharmaceutical preparation it can treat insomnia, according to a review of studies conducted before 1986. Fewer such studies have been conducted in the intervening years, but in 2002 one study added some extra support: it showed that decreasing tryptophan levels worsens sleep.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">The substance’s effects in these studies are more complex than first appears, however, because tryptophan from the diet is not the same as from a pharmaceutical preparation: in food, it’s not alone. The protein in a meal also contains large neutral amino acids or LNAAs and these compete with tryptophan to get across the blood-brain barrier. For food containing tryptophan to get the chance to produce serotonin, you not only need to eat it on an empty stomach where it doesn’t compete with the other food you’ve eaten, but you need a food that doesn’t contain other amino acids, which doesn’t happen.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">But there is a trick which could help the tryptophan to get through. In</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"> </span>a study conducted with people with insomnia<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">in Ontario, Canada, volunteers were given food bars containing butternut squash seeds. These are high in tryptophan. When the sugar dextrose was added to the bars, sleep was improved. (Nice detail in this study: by chance, a pair of identical twins both responded to adverts to take part, unaware that their twin was doing the same).</span></div>
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The reason dextrose made a difference is that sweet carbohydrates cause the secretion of insulin which encourages other amino acids to be absorbed in tissues, leaving the tryptophan more likely to succeed in crossing the blood-brain barrier.</div>
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But even if you choose the right combination of foods, it won’t necessarily work for you. The 40 controlled studies of supplements of L-tryptophan conducted before 1982 showed that people did feel  subjectively more sleepy and took less time to fall asleep, but there was less evidence that it could increase the number of hours people slept for, especially if they didn’t suffer from insomnia. And if the insomnia was severe, it had little impact. So it might only work for mild insomnia.</div>
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So is the turkey on Christmas Day or at Thanksgiving making you feel sleepy? Not on its own, but possibly in combination with other foods. However, there could be completely different reasons for feeling tired – getting work finished off before the holidays, cooking for large numbers of people and maybe burning the candle at both ends with parties too. So you might well have started the day already exhausted. Add to that indulging in a huge meal and maybe some alcohol and then, even if L-tryptophan didn’t beat the other amino acids in the race to your brain, no wonder you feel like a little snooze.</div>
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Surgeons have described a new treatment for early stage prostate cancer as "truly transformative".</div>
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The approach, tested across Europe, uses lasers and a drug made from deep sea bacteria to eliminate tumours, but without causing severe side effects.</div>
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Trials on 413 men - published in The Lancet Oncology - showed nearly half of them had no remaining trace of cancer.</div>
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Lifelong impotence and incontinence are often the price of treating prostate cancer with surgery or radiotherapy.</div>
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Up to nine-in-10 patients develop erectile problems and up to a fifth struggle to control their bladders.</div>
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That is why many men with an early stage tumour choose to "wait and see" and have treatment only when it starts growing aggressively.</div>
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"This changes everything," said Prof Mark Emberton, who tested the technique at University College London.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Triggered to kill</span></h2>
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The new treatment uses a drug, made from bacteria that live in the almost total darkness of the seafloor and which become toxic only when exposed to light.</div>
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Ten fibre optic lasers are inserted through the perineum - the gap between the anus and the testes - and into the cancerous prostate gland.</div>
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When the red laser is switched on, it activates the drug to kill the cancer and leaves the healthy prostate behind.</div>
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The trial - at 47 hospitals across Europe - showed 49% of patients went into complete remission.</div>
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And during the follow-up, only 6% of patients needed to have the prostate removed, compared with 30% of patients that did not have the new therapy.</div>
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Crucially, the impact on sexual activity and urination lasted no more than three months.</div>
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No men had significant side effects after two years.</div>
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Gerald Capon, 68 and from West Sussex, told the BBC: "I'm totally cured and free of the cancer.</div>
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"I feel incredibly lucky that I was accepted for the trial... I feel that my life ahead is worry free."</div>
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He was out of hospital the day after the treatment.b</div>
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Prof Emberton said the technology could be as significant for men as the move from removing the whole breast to just the lump in women with breast cancer.</div>
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He said: "Traditionally the decision to have treatment has always been a balance of benefits and harms.</div>
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"The harms have always been the side effects - urinary incontinence and sexual difficulties in the majority of men.</div>
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"To have a new treatment now that we can administer, to men who are eligible, that is virtually free of those side effects, is truly transformative."</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11,000 deaths</span></h2>
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More than 46,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK each year.</div>
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The tumours tend to grow slowly, but still around 11,000 men die from the disease.</div>
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However, the new treatment is not yet available for patients. It will be assessed by regulators at the beginning of next year.</div>
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Other therapies to kill prostate cancers, such as very focused ultrasound - known as focal Hifu - have a lower risk of side effects.</div>
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But these treatments are not universally available.</div>
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Dr Matthew Hobbs, from the charity Prostate Cancer UK, said the technology could help men who face the conundrum of whether or not to have treatment.</div>
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"Focal therapy treatments like this one have the potential to offer a middle ground option for some men with cancer that has not spread outside the prostate," he said.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Caution urged</span></h2>
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He said the next challenge would be to find out which patients should still wait and see, which ones should have this type of therapy, and which should have more invasive treatments.</div>
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"Until we know the answer to this question, it isimportant that these results do not lead to the over-treatment of men with low risk cancer, or the under treatment of men at higher risk."</div>
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The technology was developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel alongside Steba Biotech.</div>
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Embassy alerts Nepalis on trafficking trend via Thailand

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Dec 20, 2016- While Sri Lanka is being used as transit by traffickers, it has come to light that Thailand too sees an increased number of fraudsters tricking Nepalis.</div>
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The Embassy of Nepal in Thailand has said there is an increasing trend of Nepalis being duped in the foreign land.</div>
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It reveals that Nepalis are first brought to Thailand where fraudsters provide them with the visas of the countries including the United States, Australia, Canada and South Korea. The foreign job aspirants are then asked to overstay on the pretext of further process.</div>
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Once their legal stay in the country gets over, their information is shared with the authorities who arrest them, the embassy said in a statement. Even if they are not arrested, the fraudsters send them to the nearby countries of Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia, assuring them that they canrenew their visa to Thailand. However, the victims do not acquire the visa and are left in the lurch until they return to Nepal losing all their money.</div>
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The embassy said since the fraudsters do not reveal their original name and place of stay, it is the victims who are arrested and subjected to legal hassles.</div>
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Apart from Thailand, such frauds are being reported from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the embassy states. It has urged the people to keep in touch with embassy officials and get all the relevant information while processing for travel to another country.</div>
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Hanumandhoka Heritage inventory completed

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Dec 20, 2016- A Unesco-supported project to create an inventory documenting objects recovered from Hanumandhoka Durbar Square, a site located at the heart of the rich cultural heritage which witnessed significant destruction in the 2015 earthquakes, has been successfully completed.</div>
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Hanumandhoka Durbar Square suffered the total collapse of 10 structures in the earthquakes, and significant damage to many others.</div>
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During the rescue operation and subsequent clearing of the sites, the building elements and objects recovered from the square were placed across 23 locations in an assortment of mixed sites, according to the UN heritage agency.</div>
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 The task of salvaging, sorting and cataloguing the items, which ranged from screening a variety of objects including decorative and large wooden members to smaller pieces and stone idols, was immense, Unesco said. </div>
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More than 1,565 artifacts, including three copper inscriptions, five stone idols, and other carved wooden members such as doors and windows were re-assembled where possible. Pillars (thaam), struts, brackets (meth), joist heads (dhalinkhwas), cornices (jhalar) and icons were recovered, with the majority deemed reusable in their original locations.</div>
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The sites contained vast mixtures of objects in various conditions, and a team of experts led by Prof Mukunda Raj Aryal and Sukra Sagar Shrestha worked to create</div>
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The project covered eight of the totally collapsed monuments, and two of the damaged structures.</div>
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Work on the project began after an agreement was made in November 2015 between stakeholders, including the Department of Archaeology, Hanumandhoka Durbar Museum Development Committee, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) Nepal and Unesco.</div>
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Unesco entrusted Icomos Nepal with the task of coordination of engaging master carpenters and skilled craftspeople, as well as museum staff, volunteers and labourers. The project received significant funding from the Fok Ying Tung Foundation in Hong Kong as well as from the Japanese Government.</div>
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“We are pleased to have successfully completed the inventory of wooden architectural elements from Hanumandhoka and supported the Department of Archaeology’s efforts to recover, safeguard and document those objects,” said Christian Manhart, Unesco Representative to Nepal. “This inventory of the debris from the monuments, and the ability to reuse these original materials will be of great benefit for the rebuilding phase”.</div>
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Hanumandhoka is a complex of old buildings in central Kathmandu with structures including the royal palace of the Malla kings and of the Shah dynasty.</div>
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It is one of the seven monument zones of the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site, and represents part of Nepal’s living heritage as a site which has ongoing religious interaction and worship.</div>
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Key sites such as the Kasthamandap were included in the project.</div>
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YAN shuts down Rupandehi over chairman's murder

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Dec 20, 2016- UML youth wing Youth Association Nepal (YAN) has called an indefinite general strike beginning from Tuesday protesting the murder of its acting Chairman Durga Tiwari.</div>
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YAN has demanded investigation into the matter and arrested of the guilty. It had enforced chakka jam on Monday evening. Tiwari was shot at by two unidentified persons on a motorcycle and he later died while undergoing treatment at Devdaha Medical College.</div>
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Major market areas have remained shut and vehicular movements have been brought to a grinding hald due the strike.</div>
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Yemen conflict: US cuts arms sales to Saudi Arabia

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The US has said it will limit arms sales to Saudi Arabia amid concerns over civilian casualties linked to air strikes in Yemen.</div>
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Precision-guided weapons will no longer be delivered, a Pentagon official said.</div>
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President Barack Obama's administration said it was concerned over "flaws" in the way air strikes are targeted in Yemen.</div>
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In October, more than 140 people were killed in a strike on a funeral in the country.</div>
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A Saudi-led coalition, which is attempting to support the elected government against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, was blamed for the attack.</div>
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White House National Security Council spokesman Ned Price later warned Saudi Arabia that US security co-operation was "not a blank cheque".</div>
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But while some sales are being scaled back, the US said it will continue to provide Saudi Arabia with intelligence focused on border security.</div>
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It will also provide training for pilots involved in the Saudi-led air campaign, to avoid civilian casualties wherever possible, the official said.</div>
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Other contracts are expected to go ahead such as a deal worth more than $3bn (£2.4bn) to supply military helicopters.</div>
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The Saudi-led coalition is fighting the Houthi rebel movement in Yemen.</div>
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Thousands of civilians have been killed and nearly three million people have been displaced in the country, one of the region's poorest, since the war began in 2014.</div>
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The Houthis took the capital Sanaa, forcing Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's government to flee. Some ministers have since returned to the city of Aden.</div>
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Saudi Arabia has denied causing large-scale civilian deaths, saying it is making every effort to avoid hitting civilian targets.</div>
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China: Trump's One China comments 'risk Taiwan peace'

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Beijing has warned the incoming US administration that any attempt to challenge the "One China" policy could affect peace in the Taiwan Strait.</div>
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Interference may also damage developing US-China relations, a spokesman said.</div>
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Under the "One China" policy, the US has formal ties with China rather than the island of Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway province.</div>
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However, US President-elect Donald Trump has expressed doubts about continuing to abide by the policy.</div>
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Mr Trump had already angered China by taking a phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, and then tweeting about it.</div>
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On Monday, China said it was "seriously concerned" by Mr Trump's comments, and urged sensitivity around the issue.</div>
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But An Fengshan, a spokesman for China's policy-making Taiwan Affairs Office, went further on Wednesday, warning of more serious consequences.</div>
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"Upholding the "One China" principle is the political basis of developing China-US relations, and is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," he said.</div>
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"If this basis is interfered with or damaged then the healthy, stable development of China-US relations is out of the question, and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait will be seriously impacted," he added.</div>
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Mr An's comments came as Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command, vowed the US will keep challenging Beijing's "assertive, aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea".</div>
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Speaking to Australian think tank the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Admiral Harris said: "We will not allow the shared domains to be closed down unilaterally, no matter how many bases are built on artificial features in the South China Sea.</div>
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"We will co-operate where we can but we will be ready to confront where we must."</div>
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Beijing has been developing artificial islands capable of hosting military planes in the region.</div>
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It also insists on sovereignty over virtually all the resource-endowed South China Sea, despite rival claims from its South East Asian neighbours.</div>
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Washington has repeatedly said it does not recognise the claims, and has sent warships into the area to assert the right to freedom of navigation</div>
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Source:<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38313839">www.bbc.com</a></div>
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