CHARLES HUTZLER, JIUHUANG FIRST VILLAGE,(AP):  Police don't travel far to monitor the goings-on at the Gami Temple at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The police station sits inside the monastery, just outside the gates to the main prayer hall.

CSMonitor, BEIRUT, LEBANON: Key questions about Iran's nuclear program remain unresolved despite two days of talks with UN experts in Tehran about possible weapons efforts.

AP, KABUL:  The Afghan Interior Ministry says seven people have been killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters demonstrating against the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload was released on bail Wednesday after a New Zealand judge decided Kim Dotcom lacked means to flee because his funds had been seized.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Eastern Europe's tradition of political revolt has met the digital age. This time it's not communists or food shortages fueling fury, but an international copyright treaty that opponents say threatens freedom on the Internet.

AFP: A debt-laden Chinese computer firm embroiled in a copyright row with Apple over the iPad name on Friday threatened to sue the technology giant in the United States for $2 billion.

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, who is also the head of the Special Committee, has decided to immediately begin the process of sending home the combatants opting for voluntary retirement and completing the process in the next 12 days, and then moving ahead with the integration process.

Issues of state restructuring in the new federal set up and the forms of governance have become the two hottest topics of discussions of late.  Nepali Congress (NC) leader Ramesh Lekhak is a law expert who has been breezing the party with its representatives in the State Restructuring Commission.

A person who has observed Nepalese politics at close quarters and has been associated with the Center for Constitutional Dialogue (CCD(, Professor Krishna Khanal elaborates on one of the mostly debated topics in all echelons of Nepal-- Federalism

LONDON: Some London based senior Magars have complained lack of appropriate respect to various ethnic groups as the major factor behind the present condition of the nation.

N24 Report, Kathmandu: A Nepalese national lost his life after being hit by a vehicle in the US. Though preliminary media reports remained sketchy, the deceased has been identified as Rajendra Kumar, a resident of Anamnagar in Kathmandu

Dharma Raj Adhikari, London: SE London Tamudhi has successfully concluded Griha shanti pooja ( a pooja made for pacifying volatile stars) on Sunday at Plumstead’s St. Patrick’s Hall.

By Sara Sidner, CNN:

On the Nepal-China border (CNN) -- The smell of incense burning and the sound of deep-throated chants greet you at the gate of one of Kathmandu's massive stupas, a Buddhist holy place where Tibetans gather to pray.

By Eurasia Review

The government of Nepal should take immediate steps, with the full cooperation of the Nepal Army, to ensure truth, reparation, and justice for human rights abuses during the country’s decade long conflict, Advocacy Forum and Human Rights Watch said.

By S. Chandrasekharan

There was a hope that with the Maoists in power, the peace process and the constitution making will be completed before end May as directed by the Supreme Court. When Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai began his term in August 28, there was a commitment to peace, constitution, good governance and economic prosperity