An indefinite strike by Maoists in Nepal to force the government to resign has entered its third day, with many businesses still shut and roads empty.

Time is running out for attempts to settle the country’s confrontation

Riot police in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, on Sunday took to the streets to disperse Maoist protesters who had massed near the government’s main administrative offices as part of a campaign to force the government to step...

Riot police clashed with thousands of communists demonstrating outside the government's main offices in the Nepalese capital on Sunday, injuring several protesters and police officers.

More than two years after a Constituent Assembly was elected to help guide Nepal out of years of civil war and political upheaval, the constitution it was supposed to draft remains unwritten amid endless political bickering.

Nepal's prime minister has agreed to resign as part of a last-minute deal with the country's former Maoist rebels to avert a political crisis.

The government decided to extend the term of the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal by another year and remove its five regional offices.

Nepal's prime minister resigned after bowing to months of pressure from opposition communists who demanded his ouster in parliament and in sometimes-violent street protests.