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KATHMANDU: Police in Nepal have arrested the brother-in-law of a woman who died after she was banished to a “menstrual hut”, the first such arrest in the Himalayan nation as it seeks to end the practice. The body of Parbati Buda Rawat, 21, was found on Monday after she lit a fire to keep warm in a mud and stone …

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