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Nepal's prime minister has set May 28 as the first day for a special assembly that plans to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in this Himalayan country.
Police in Nepal arrested more than 500 Tibetan protesters, nearly all of them women, on Sunday before what was to be the first all-female rally against China's actions in Tibet.
Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal's new governing assembly, taking more than double the number of their nearest rival, an election official said Thursday.
Nepal's former communist insurgents won half the directly elected seats for a constitution-drafting assembly in this month's election, showing strong national support for the ex-rebels, the chief election official said Monday.
Nepal has given its security personnel permission to shoot pro-Tibet demonstrators during China's Olympic flame climb to Mount Everest's summit early next month.
Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles decrying a crackdown in their homeland in a protest near the Chinese Embassy on Thursday
The U.S. still labels the party a terrorist group, but the election is likely to make its leader the ex-monarchy's new President
The former communist rebels known as Maoists emerged Sunday as early leaders in Nepal's historic elections for an assembly that could formally abolish a 240-year monarchy.
Analysis: Despite pre-polling violence, the Himalayan kingdom takes the first step toward becoming a republic
Nepal's elections on Thursday were hailed as a success by international observers, including a former U.S. president, despite violence that left two people dead -- including a candidate gunned down in front of a polling station.
Nepal's prime minister has set May 28 as the first day for a special assembly that plans to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in this Himalayan country.
Police in Nepal arrested more than 500 Tibetan protesters, nearly all of them women, on Sunday before what was to be the first all-female rally against China's actions in Tibet.
Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal's new governing assembly, taking more than double the number of their nearest rival, an election official said Thursday.
Nepal's former communist insurgents won half the directly elected seats for a constitution-drafting assembly in this month's election, showing strong national support for the ex-rebels, the chief election official said Monday.
Nepal has given its security personnel permission to shoot pro-Tibet demonstrators during China's Olympic flame climb to Mount Everest's summit early next month.
Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles decrying a crackdown in their homeland in a protest near the Chinese Embassy on Thursday
The U.S. still labels the party a terrorist group, but the election is likely to make its leader the ex-monarchy's new President
The former communist rebels known as Maoists emerged Sunday as early leaders in Nepal's historic elections for an assembly that could formally abolish a 240-year monarchy.
Analysis: Despite pre-polling violence, the Himalayan kingdom takes the first step toward becoming a republic
Nepal's elections on Thursday were hailed as a success by international observers, including a former U.S. president, despite violence that left two people dead -- including a candidate gunned down in front of a polling station.
Polls opened in Nepal Thursday in an election marred by an outburst of bloodshed that has left eight people dead and stoked fears of more violence on voting day.
Nepalese police shot and killed a demonstrator Wednesday as he protested the killing of a political candidate a day earlier, police said.
A candidate in Nepal's upcoming elections was shot and killed little more than a day before voters go to the polls, authorities said Wednesday. Six other leftist activists were killed elsewhere in the country, police said.
At least two people were killed and two wounded when a bomb exploded in a mosque during evening prayers in southeastern Nepal, police said Sunday morning.
Two Communist Party workers and a candidate for a small leftist political party were killed less than a month before a historic vote in Nepal, police said Wednesday.
The death toll from a United Nations helicopter crash in Nepal has reached 12, the government said Tuesday.
A United Nations helicopter caught fire and crashed Monday in a mountainous region in eastern Nepal, killing at least 10 of the 12 people on board, according to Nepal's home ministry.
About 12,000 refugees were without homes Sunday after a fire blazed through a camp in southeastern Nepal destroying more than 1,200 huts, officials told CNN.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured in southern Nepal on Friday when a bomb exploded inside a passenger bus, police told CNN.
Nepal took the first step on the path to becoming a republic Friday after parliament voted to amend the constitution ending the 240-year-old monarchy, the speaker of parliament said.
Rescuers searched for a third day as 26 people remained missing after the collapse of a bridge spanning the Bheri River in western Nepal, police said.
Authorities in a remote region of Nepal searched downstream up to 20 miles (30 km) for bodies Wednesday, one day after a suspension bridge collapsed, sending hundreds of Hindu festivalgoers into the water below.
Rescuers were searching through the night Tuesday for hundreds of people who fell into a river after a footbridge collapsed during a religious festival in Nepal.
Nepal's governing coalition on Sunday moved away from its long-standing monarchy toward a republic, but the change will be implemented only after general elections slated to be held by next spring.
"I feel that my life is worthless. I have lost my interest in talking to others, and in my studies too. I have also lost interest in being with a crowd of people. All I want is to sit all by myself. Is my problem an illness? Has it got any solution?" - Letter from a male university student, 18, Nepal
Nepal's Maoists pulled out of the country's coalition government Tuesday after their demands to abolish the monarchy and declare the nation a republic went unheeded.
At least two people were killed and a dozen were wounded when three explosions went off simultaneously in different parts of the Nepalese capital on Sunday.
For a second day, refugees from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan clashed with Nepalese police on Monday near a refugee camp in eastern Nepal, according to the United Nations and local police.
Former Maoist rebels will join an interim government under an agreement reached with Nepal's governing coalition after weeks of negotiations, according to a source close to the government.
Hundreds of Maoist rebels clashed with an ethnic political group double their size in southern Nepal on Wednesday, police said.
Nepalese political parties and communist rebels on Saturday agreed upon an interim constitution under which the king is no longer the nation's head of state.
Nepal's government and Maoist rebels have signed a peace accord, ending 10 years of fighting and beginning what is hoped to be an era of peaceful politics in the Himalayan kingdom.
On the day a peace deal is due to be signed between the government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist insurgents, we offer a guide to the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal.
An overloaded bus driving down a mountain road plunged off a cliff in western Nepal, killing at least 42 people and injuring 43 Saturday morning, police said.
We went from store to store in Kathmandu, Nepal, talking with shopkeepers and trying to find one of the country's thousands of "kamlaris" or female-child bonded laborers.
Weather conditions hindered Sunday the search for a helicopter carrying 24 people that crashed in a remote area of Nepal, authorities said.
A helicopter with 24 people on board -- including Western aid workers and Nepalese diplomats -- reportedly crashed Saturday in a remote Nepalese village.
Nepal's parliament on Saturday took action to further strip King Gyanendra of power, with lawmakers unanimously endorsing a regulation saying the king has no say in passing bills, according to a parliament spokesman.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has been stripped of much of his power and privileges by the parliament that he recently reinstated, leaving the king a ceremonial monarch.
Nepal's new government has recalled 12 ambassadors who were appointed by King Gyanendra and revoked all royal appointments to government corporations and state-owned institutions, the Home Minister announced Sunday.
"After the tedium of strikes and curfew-fever, come and relax by our infinity pool, feast on fresh organic food and enjoy fantastic walks in the peaceful rural hills."
After three weeks of protests and political turmoil, Nepal now has a new prime minister, and the Himalayan nation's parliament is set to reconvene Friday for the first time in four years.
Nepal's communist rebels have declared a three-month cease-fire one day before parliament is set to reconvene after weeks of bloody protests.
Nepal's seven-party opposition alliance called off a massive protest planned for Tuesday, replacing it with a "victory rally" following the king's decision to restore democracy in the Himalayan kingdom.
Nepalese authorities have announced another daytime curfew in the capital, one day after Maoist rebels attacked government buildings in the eastern part of the country.
Heavy rain and a strong police presence doused a protest Saturday by about 200,000 marchers who headed toward the palace in another show of opposition to the absolute rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra, who vowed to return political power "to the people" the day before.
A small group of pro-democracy protesters have returned to the streets of Nepal's capital, one day after police killed three when they opened fire on a crowd.
Nepal's King Gyanendra came to throne in troubled circumstances -- the June 1, 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family in which his brother, then-King Birendra, was slain by Birendra's son Dipendra in a drunken rage.
Activists are vowing to go ahead with plans for massive street protests in Kathmandu Thursday, despite an 18-hour government curfew that came into effect at 2 a.m. (8:15 p.m. Wednesday GMT) and a threat to shoot violators.
Under pressure to step down from power, Nepal's King Gyanendra early Friday vowed for "no delay in dialogue" with the country's political parties.
Police in Nepal have arrested 25 journalists and five human rights activists as pro-democracy demonstrations calling for the country's king to step down stretched into a week.
Nepal security police have opened fire on protesters in the Nepalese capital -- injuring dozens -- on the sixth day of demonstrations calling on the country's king to step down from power.
More than 200 activists and opposition party members were arrested across Nepal on Saturday as they organized pro-democracy rallies, the parties said.
Maoist rebels have killed three police officers and abducted 20 others in the town of Diktel in eastern Nepal, police said.
At least 36 people have been killed and dozens more wounded when a crowded bus detonated a land mine planted by suspected communist rebels in Nepal's south, an army official said.
For the first time in more than 40 years, scientists have spotted the elegant and endangered snow leopard on the southern slopes of Mount Everest.
A fierce battle between government forces and Maoist rebels in eastern Nepal has left at least 59 people dead.
Thirty-seven Maoist rebels have been killed as security forces repelled a series of major attacks in Nepal's southern district, a Royal Nepal Army official said Tuesday.
Suspected Maoist rebels have shot dead a prominent Hindu priest in southwestern Nepal, police said, in what is believed to be the first killing of a religious leader in the nearly decade-long insurgency.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has lifted a state of emergency that he imposed on February 1 after seizing control of the government
A day after his release from a 59-day house arrest, former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Saturday dismissed speculations that his Nepali Congress party would join the Maoist rebels in opposing monarchy.
More than a hundred political party workers were arrested in Nepal on Monday for staging anti-king protests, said Nepali Congress, one of the five parties opposing King Gyanendra's takeover of absolute power on February 1.
Nepal's police have summoned the editor of the country's largest circulating newspaper Kantipur to appear at a local police post in the capital Kathmandu Thursday morning.
Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was freed Friday, 40 days after King Gyanendra assumed power, dismissing Deuba's government and placing a number of political party leaders in house arrest.
Nepal remains gripped by political tension, with rebels helping to break more than a hundred prisoners out of jail, and police quashing a protest in the capital Kathmandu.
Leaders from around the world have condemned the decision by Nepal's King Gyanendra to dismiss the government and declare a state of emergency.
King Gyanendra says he has dissolved the government of Nepal and has declared a state of emergency as he takes control of the Himalayan kingdom.
Maoist rebels in the Himalayan nation of Nepal killed 23 security personnel in their deadliest attack in recent days, officials have said.
More than 500 Maoists attacked an army outpost in western Nepal, sparking a fierce clash that left at least 30 rebels dead and 150 others injured, a Royal Nepal Army official said.
Sixteen Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with Nepalese security forces Thursday in the western district of Dailekh, Royal Nepal Army spokesman Deepak Gurung has told CNN.
Twenty security men were killed Wednesday when Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol in Nepal's western district of Arghakhanchi, according to a Royal Nepal Army spokesman.
At least 36 Maoist rebels and ten Nepalese security personnel were killed in clashes which began late Saturday night and continued until Sunday morning at Pandon village in Kailali district, an army official said Sunday.
At least 30 Maoist rebels and 11 security personnel were killed in two separate clashes Tuesday in Nepal, the Royal Nepal Army sources said.
In the first major encounter since the end of a temporary cease-fire, 10 Maoist rebels were killed in separate clashes with the government forces in Nepal in the last two days, Nepal army sources said Saturday.
Nepal has extended a curfew in its capital as the Himalayan kingdom marked a day of mourning for 12 Nepalese hostages killed in Iraq.
Nepal's government has issued a curfew in Kathmandu after violence broke out in retaliation for the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.
Protesters in Kathmandu have expressed disbelief and frustration after learning of the deaths of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq.
Iraqi militants have killed 12 Nepalis they captured just over a week ago, the militants and a Nepalese official said Tuesday.
Maoists rebels have lifted a blockade that cut Nepal's capital Kathmandu off from the rest of the country for a week.
Two bombs have exploded in Nepal's capital Kathmandu as an unprecedented rebel blockade of the city enters its third day.
Kathmandu has been cut off from the rest of the country for the second day of an indefinite blockade of the Nepalese capital by Maoists rebels.
The death toll from South Asian floods has jumped to at least 326 with rising waters and overflowing rivers hitting towns and villages from Nepal to Bangladesh.
Hundreds of Maoist rebels have stormed a police station in Nepal overnight, sparking a three-hour gun battle that killed nine police officers and left an undetermined number of rebels dead, according to police.
At least 190 fighters have been killed in a fierce overnight clash between Maoist rebels and Nepal's army.
Security forces in Nepal shot to death seven Maoist rebels Friday in the central district of Dhading, some 20 miles west of the capital, government sources said.
At least 21 people have been killed in a Maoist attack on a telecommunications station in Nepal, state run radio has reported.
The mayor of Birgunj in southern Nepal was shot and killed by suspected Maoist rebels.
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