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Nepal police personnel detain activists during a protest outside the president building, after the president dissolved the parliament and fixed general elections in November, amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak, in Kathmandu May 23, 2021. — Reuters pic
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KATHMANDU, May 24 — Nepal’s parliament was dissolved for the second time in five months Saturday and new elections called for November as the Himalayan country battled political turmoil alongside the coronavirus pandemic.
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari made the order after declaring that neither Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli nor Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the opposition Nepali Congress, had a majority to form a new government.