<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Kathmandu: News &amp; Videos about Kathmandu - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Kathmandu</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Kathmandu from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:42:42 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Kathmandu: News &amp; Videos about Kathmandu - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Kathmandu</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Kathmandu from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Bus plunges into river, killing at least 19 in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 19 people were killed when a bus plunged into a swollen river in central Nepal Thursday, police said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>2 killed in Nepal church bombing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/nepal.church.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/nepal.church.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two people were killed and about a dozen others were injured when a bomb exploded in a Catholic church in Kathmandu on Saturday morning, police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal beefs up security ahead of Tibet anniversary</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/nepal.tibet.anniversary.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/nepal.tibet.anniversary.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities in Nepal said Saturday they have beefed up security near the Chinese Embassy to stop any possible anti-Chinese demonstrations in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jon Wertheim: Candid Dokic ascends, forgetting Nadal and a streaker's fate</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_wertheim/01/23/aussie.friday/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_wertheim/01/23/aussie.friday/index.html</guid><description>Can Jelena Dokic become the dominant player the women's tour is looking for? (And regardless of the answer -- how wonderful is it to see someone who used to be the epitome of misery so thoroughly enjoying herself?)   -- Deborah, Como, N.S.W. </description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Protests continue against murder of Nepalese journalist</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/13/nepal.journalist.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/13/nepal.journalist.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The body of a journalist who was hacked to death in southeastern Nepal was cremated Tuesday as businesses and public transportation in the town of Janakpur remained shut for a second day to protest the killing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese journalist hacked to death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/nepal.journalist.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/nepal.journalist.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Nepalese journalist who reported on women's rights and wrote several articles criticizing the dowry system was hacked to death in her room, a media rights group said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal: 2 dead, 30 rescued after boat capsizes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/nepal.boat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/nepal.boat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eight people were missing and two confirmed dead after a boat capsized on Nepal's Koshi River, about 450 km (280 miles) southeast of Kathmandu, police said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Schoolgirls killed in Nepal bus crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/nepal.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/nepal.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 22 people, most of them children, died in southern Nepal when their bus overturned on a bridge and fell nearly 100 feet (30 meters), police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>German experts probe Nepal plane crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/nepal.aircrash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/nepal.aircrash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A team of German forensic experts has arrived in Nepal to identify the badly charred bodies of tourists who were among the dead in a plane crash near Mount Everest.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>18 killed in Nepal tourist plane crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/nepal.aircrash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/nepal.aircrash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A small plane carrying tourists from Germany and Australia hit a fence and caught fire in Nepal's Everest region Wednesday morning, killing 18 of 19 people on board, officials said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal bus plunge kills at least 14</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bus carrying about 50 passengers plunged into a river 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Kathmandu on Friday, police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal: More than 1,000 Tibet protesters held</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/nepal.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/nepal.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police have arrested 1,130 people Friday as they protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, a police spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bus plunges into Nepal river</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/19/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/19/nepal.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 15 passengers were killed Friday when a bus hit a pothole on a highway in Nepal and plunged into a river west of Kathmandu, police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese police release superiors</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/14/nepal.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/14/nepal.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A group of 200 officers surrendered at a police camp in western Nepal early Monday after holding seven of their superiors hostage for about 36 hours, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese police take superiors hostage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/13/nepal.police.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/13/nepal.police.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>About 200 officers at a police camp in western Nepal have taken eight of their superiors hostage, demanding better treatment and better food in the barracks, Nepalese officials.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pilot error blamed for deadly U.N. helicopter crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/18/nepal.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/18/nepal.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pilot error caused the crash of a U.N. helicopter in March which killed 10 people, a Nepalese investigating official said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal's King Leaves Palace Forever</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813728,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813728,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Nepal's deposed king gave up his crown of peacock feathers, yak hair and jewels on Wednesday and left his palace forever</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal's King: 15 Days to Leave Palace</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1809842,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1809842,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Nepal's king will have 15 days to leave the palace after his centuries-old throne is abolished, officials said Wednesday, hours before they were expected to declare the country a republic</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal Swears in New Assembly</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1809571,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1809571,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Police fanned out across Nepal's capital Tuesday as a new assembly that is widely expected to abolish the country's 239-year-old monarchy was sworn in</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>500 Tibetans Arrested in Nepal</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1731990,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1731990,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles decrying a crackdown in their homeland in a protest near the Chinese Embassy on Thursday</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parliamentary polls open in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Polls opened in Nepal Thursday in an election marred by an outburst of bloodshed that has left eight people dead and stoked fears of more violence on voting day.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-election violence flares in Nepal, 7 dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.dead/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.dead/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nepalese police shot and killed a demonstrator Wednesday as he protested the killing of a political candidate a day earlier, police said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Violence flares ahead of Nepal election</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/08/nepal.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/08/nepal.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A candidate in Nepal's upcoming elections was shot and killed little more than a day before voters go to the polls, authorities said Wednesday. Six other leftist activists were killed elsewhere in the country, police said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protesting Tibetan exiles arrested in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/tibet.nepal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/tibet.nepal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nepalese police arrested 84 Tibetan exiles who were staging an illegal protest at China's embassy visa office in Kathmandu on Saturday, a continuation of anti-Chinese demonstrations that began earlier in the month.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police search door to door in Lhasa</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/tibet.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/tibet.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Live video showed scores of Chinese police searching door to door in a section of Lhasa Sunday as part of a crackdown following violent protests in the Tibetan capital that may have left as many as 100 dead.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Tibet's Leaders Ride the Tiger?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1722792,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1722792,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Discontent with the path of moderation resonates among exiles, and may shape the Tibetans' clash with China</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal: 12 dead from U.N. copter crash</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/nepal.helicopter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/nepal.helicopter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The death toll from a United Nations helicopter crash in Nepal has reached 12, the government said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. 'copter crash in Nepal kills 10</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/03/nepal.helicopter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/03/nepal.helicopter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A United Nations helicopter caught fire and crashed Monday in a mountainous region in eastern Nepal, killing at least 10 of the 12 people on board, according to Nepal's home ministry.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police parade kidney-snatching 'mastermind'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India has admitted to his involvement in about 300 transplants over the last 12 to 13 years, police said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'Mastermind' in cash-for-organs ring arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India has been arrested, a Nepalese minister of state told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>7 killed in Nepal bus bombing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/nepal.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/nepal.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least seven people were killed and 20 injured in southern Nepal on Friday when a bomb exploded inside a passenger bus, police told CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Frank Deford: After climbing Everest, Hillary became a man of Nepal</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/frank_deford/01/14/hillary/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/frank_deford/01/14/hillary/index.html</guid><description>At the end of the century, I wanted to do a story on Sir Edmund Hillary. All the experts in the United States were carrying on about, essentially, the same characters -- Ruth, Jordan, Ali, maybe Jim Thorpe. But I thought that what Hillary had accomplished with the late Tenzing Norkay, his Sherpa guide, was perhaps the single greatest sporting achievement of the twentieth century.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>16 dead after bridge collapse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities in a remote region of Nepal searched downstream up to 20 miles (30 km) for bodies Wednesday, one day after a suspension bridge collapsed, sending hundreds of Hindu festivalgoers into the water below.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bridge-collapse rescuers battle darkness, current, isolation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rescuers were searching through the night Tuesday for hundreds of people who fell into a river after a footbridge collapsed during a religious festival in Nepal.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Road warrior</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/11/8395491/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/12/11/8395491/index.htm</guid><description>Though he jumped off the corporate ladder to launch a nonprofit, John Wood doesn't necessarily favor yurts and youth hostels. As author of the new book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Ent... </description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>42 killed as bus plunges off cliff</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/nepal.bus.plinge/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/nepal.bus.plinge/index.html</guid><description>An overloaded bus driving down a mountain road plunged off a cliff in western Nepal, killing at least 42 people and injuring 43 Saturday morning, police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal dad sold girl for $25, paid in installments</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/25/nepal.kamlari/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/25/nepal.kamlari/index.html</guid><description>We went from store to store in Kathmandu, Nepal, talking with shopkeepers and trying to find one of the country's thousands of "kamlaris" or female-child bonded laborers.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weather halts Nepal 'copter search</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/nepal.helicopter/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/nepal.helicopter/index.html</guid><description>Weather conditions hindered Sunday the search for a helicopter carrying 24 people that crashed in a remote area of Nepal, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No sign of missing Nepal chopper</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/23/nepal.helicopter/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/23/nepal.helicopter/index.html</guid><description>A helicopter with 24 people on board -- including Western aid workers and Nepalese diplomats -- reportedly crashed Saturday in a remote Nepalese village.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese Parliament reopens after 4 years</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/nepal.parliament/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/nepal.parliament/index.html</guid><description>Nepalese politicians have returned to Parliament for the first time in four years following weeks of bloody protests and political turmoil that eventually forced the king to hand power back to elected officials.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal: Now for the hard part</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/nepal.future/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/nepal.future/index.html</guid><description>"After the tedium of strikes and curfew-fever, come and relax by our infinity pool, feast on fresh organic food and enjoy fantastic walks in the peaceful rural hills."</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal protests give way to joy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/nepal.protests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/nepal.protests/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's seven-party opposition alliance called off a massive protest planned for Tuesday, replacing it with a "victory rally" following the king's decision to restore democracy in the Himalayan kingdom.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal's king gives in to demands</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/24/nepal.protests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/24/nepal.protests/index.html</guid><description>Celebrations have replaced protests in the streets of Nepal in the hours after King Gyanendra announced he was reinstating the parliament he dissolved in 2002, giving in to demands of an alliance of seven political parties that launched protests three weeks ago.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunbattles, curfew wrack Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/nepal.protests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/nepal.protests/index.html</guid><description>Nepalese authorities have announced another daytime curfew in the capital, one day after Maoist rebels attacked government buildings in the eastern part of the country.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protesters unmoved by king's words</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nepal0450/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nepal0450/index.html</guid><description>Members of the seven political parties that launched massive protests against the absolute rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra were meeting Saturday to begin the process of forming a new government, one day after the king vowed to return political power to the people.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rain, police douse Nepal protest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nepal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nepal/index.html</guid><description>Heavy rain and a strong police presence doused a protest Saturday by about 200,000 marchers who headed toward the palace in another show of opposition to the absolute rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra, who vowed to return political power "to the people" the day before.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Riot police kill Nepal protesters</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/nepal.1354/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/nepal.1354/index.html</guid><description>Police have opened fire on pro-democracy activists on the outskirts of Kathmandu, killing three people and injuring at least 100 others, police sources told CNN, as protests against King Gyanendra entered their third week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese out on street, curfew on</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/nepal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/nepal/index.html</guid><description>A small group of pro-democracy protesters have returned to the streets of Nepal's capital, one day after police killed three when they opened fire on a crowd.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Troubled times saw king's rise</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/19/nepal.king.gyanendra/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/19/nepal.king.gyanendra/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's King Gyanendra came to throne in troubled circumstances -- the June 1, 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family in which his brother, then-King Birendra, was slain by Birendra's son Dipendra in a drunken rage.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Activists to defy Nepal curfew </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/19/nepal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/19/nepal/index.html</guid><description>Activists are vowing to go ahead with plans for massive street protests in Kathmandu Thursday, despite an 18-hour government curfew that came into effect at 2 a.m. (8:15 p.m. Wednesday GMT) and a threat to shoot violators.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Travel talk: have your say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/04/18/your.say/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/04/18/your.say/index.html</guid><description>Travel always provides a wealth of experiences. Have you ever had an interesting, crazy, amazing or bizarre incident whilst overseas on business? We want to hear about what you've been up to. Have your say with CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal king pledges political talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/13/nepal.king/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/13/nepal.king/index.html</guid><description>Under pressure to step down from power, Nepal's King Gyanendra early Friday vowed for "no delay in dialogue" with the country's political parties.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protester shot dead in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.sunday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/09/nepal.sunday/index.html</guid><description>Nepalese police shot and killed a protester Sunday in the Banepa region when pro-democracy protesters tried to storm a police post, a government official said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal 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clashes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/nepal.rebels/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/nepal.rebels/index.html</guid><description>Fifteen Maoist rebels and six Nepalese soldiers died in an armed confrontation that occurred in a remote area south of Kathmandu, according to the United Defense Forces.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>90 students abducted in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/27/nepal.rebels/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/27/nepal.rebels/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's army claims Maoist rebels have abducted about 90 high school students from their classrooms last week.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebels kill three in Nepal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/nepal.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/nepal.violence/index.html</guid><description>Maoist rebels have killed three police officers and abducted 20 others in the town of Diktel in eastern Nepal, police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Himalayan Monorail</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/06/01/8261964/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/06/01/8261964/index.htm</guid><description>Venture 135 rugged miles west of Kathmandu into the village of Besisahar, and you'll encounter a carriage suspended from a taut wire, safely whisking villagers over one of the treacherously swollen...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal says 37 Maoist rebels killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/nepal.killings/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/nepal.killings/index.html</guid><description>Thirty-seven Maoist rebels have been killed as security forces repelled a series of major attacks in Nepal's southern district, a Royal Nepal Army official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former Nepal PM arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/nepal.arrest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/nepal.arrest/index.html</guid><description>Former Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been arrested at his home in Kathmandu, a spokesman for his party, the Nepali Congress-Democratic, has told CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal arrests anti-king activists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/nepal.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/nepal.arrests/index.html</guid><description>More than a hundred political party workers were arrested in Nepal on Monday for staging anti-king protests, said Nepali Congress, one of the five parties opposing King Gyanendra's takeover of absolute power on February 1.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal police summon editor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/nepal.editor/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/nepal.editor/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's police have summoned the editor of the country's largest circulating newspaper Kantipur to appear at a local police post in the capital Kathmandu Thursday morning.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal rebels help prison break </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/nepal.protest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/nepal.protest/index.html</guid><description>Nepal remains gripped by political tension, with rebels helping to break more than a hundred prisoners out of jail, and police quashing a protest in the capital Kathmandu.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>World leaders condemn Nepal crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/01/nepal.govt.reaction/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/01/nepal.govt.reaction/index.html</guid><description>Leaders from around the world have condemned the decision by Nepal's King Gyanendra to dismiss the government and declare a state of emergency.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal's king sacks government</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/01/nepal.govt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/01/nepal.govt/index.html</guid><description>King Gyanendra says he has dissolved the government of Nepal and has declared a state of emergency as he takes control of the Himalayan kingdom.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2005 05:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tsunami survivor describes 'land of walking wounded'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/tsunami.survivor/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/tsunami.survivor/index.html</guid><description>After battling breast cancer, Stephanie Cox couldn't have known a trip to Thailand would put her in harm's way.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kathmandu bomb injures 12</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/09/nepal.bomb/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/09/nepal.bomb/index.html</guid><description>At least a dozen people were injured Tuesday when a powerful bomb went off in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal mourns hostages amid curfew</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/02/nepal.killings.curfew/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/02/nepal.killings.curfew/index.html</guid><description>Nepal has extended a curfew in its capital as the Himalayan kingdom marked a day of mourning for 12 Nepalese hostages killed in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal curfew after Iraq killings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/01/nepal.killings.reaction/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/01/nepal.killings.reaction/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's government has issued a curfew in Kathmandu after violence broke out in retaliation for the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 06:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Killings shock, humiliate Nepalese</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/nepal.killings.reaction/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/nepal.killings.reaction/index.html</guid><description>Protesters in Kathmandu have expressed disbelief and frustration after learning of the deaths of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebels lift blockade, warn of more</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/nepal.attacks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/nepal.attacks/index.html</guid><description>Maoists rebels have lifted a blockade that cut Nepal's capital Kathmandu off from the rest of the country for a week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Maoist rebels launch Nepal attack</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/nepal.attacks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/nepal.attacks/index.html</guid><description>Hundreds of Maoist rebels attacked a remote district headquarters in northwestern Nepal early Sunday, killing at least one soldier, according to police.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombs hit Nepal's capital</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/nepal.bomb/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/nepal.bomb/index.html</guid><description>Two bombs have exploded in Nepal's capital Kathmandu as an unprecedented rebel blockade of the city enters its third day.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kathmandu runs low on supplies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/nepal.blockade/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/nepal.blockade/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's capital Kathmandu has only a few days worth of fresh produce and cooking fuel, officials say, as a rebel blockade enters its third day.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebel blockade around Nepal 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