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.

Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned as prime minister of Nepal on Wednesday after just over a year in office, in response to pressure from opposition Maoists and detractors within his own party.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Nepal’s political parties to step up their efforts to form a consensus government in the wake of this week’s resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.

Nepal's political leaders were locked in talks Friday to try to form a new government amid mounting international concern about the country's faltering peace process.

The Nepali government should redouble its efforts to investigate a 2005 extrajudicial killing after one of the suspects named by the authorities investigating the case, Agni Sapkota, was denied a visa to visit the US by its...