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Outcome of the recently held constituent assembly poll in Nepal has dealt a big blow to Maoists, the countrys biggest party. HT Image The final seat tally isnt out yet, but with just 15% of votes, Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist party has been reduced to around 80 seats in the 601-member constituent assembly. Even party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda suffered a humilia
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Colourful, creative and a little bit crazy: the fight against AIDS can be all that as activists demonstrated today at the Global Village on the sidelines of the World AIDS Conference in Vienna. HT Image At one end of the Village, super-heroes Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe stood in bright latex suits, ready to affront the deadly scourge of HIV/AIDS. Methadone and buprenorphine are used to treat drug addiction, especially to heroin, which is a major contributor to the AIDS epidemic due to shared needles. We wanted to make a campaign that was fun and dynamic, something that would make people gravitate towards the campai
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