US orders Nepal staff withdrawal

by clorenz1 | April 24, 2006 at 06:50 am

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The United States has ordered all its non-essential diplomatic staff and their families to leave Nepal. The move comes on the eve of what protesters in the capital, Kathmandu, vow will be their biggest demonstration yet against King Gyanendra.

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