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Asia: Nepal signs new constitution into law after 7 years

by Our Foreign Desk

CONSTITUENT Assembly members in the capital Kathmandu gave a roar of approval yesterday when President Ram Baran Yadav signed the country’s new constitution into law.

The process took more than seven years to complete following a decade of political infighting and over 40 deaths in recent street protests.

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