Student Strike Ends in Nepal

The government of Nepal has agreed to demands made by the student group allied with the country's Maoist rebels, ending a two-week strike that had kept millions of students, at all levels of instruction, from attending class, the Associated Press reported.

Human-rights activists mediated the agreement, and schools and colleges reopened last week.

The All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary called the strike because, it said, the Nepalese government had not,

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