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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A Nepalese riot policeman (C) charges towards photographers as demonstrating activists scatter during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in Kathmandu May 30, 2012. Nepal's Maoists branded their rivals "fascists"May 30 as bitter fighting between parties dashed hopes of a consensus to guide the country through months of a political power vacuum. The Maoists' rhetoric came with the troubled Himalayan country without a parliament and only a caretaker government after the Constituent Assembly was disbanded having failed to agree on a new constitution.
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