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Nepalese policemen detain the human right activists during a protest against dissolution of parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal
NEPAL’S President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has dissolved parliament following a request by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli.
The decision follows months of tension between Mr Oli, co-chairman of the Nepal Communist Party, and his fellow co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre Prachanda.
The party was formed three years ago from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which they respectively led.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war