A 40-year-old mother of two was burned alive in central Nepal after she was accused of being a witch, police said Saturday.
Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority.
Thousands of Maoist supporters swarmed into Nepal's capital Saturday for a May Day rally that was also intended to press the government to step down.
Nepal's army claims Maoist rebels have abducted about 90 high school students from their classrooms last week.
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