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China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-16 08:03
Assembly set to pick PM
After weeks of political battles, Nepal's special assembly was set to choose a new prime minister yesterday that is widely expected to be the Maoist leader Prachanda.
The assembly vote is a key step in a 2006 peace deal that ended a civil war against the monarchy - a conflict which caused more than 13,000 deaths since 1996.
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