WORLD BRIEFING / NEPAL
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Parliament elected a moderate communist leader as the new prime minister three weeks after the resignation of a former Maoist plunged the country into crisis.
Madhav Kumar Nepal, 56, a former bank clerk and leader of the moderate Communist UML party, was elected after the ex-Maoists refused to field a candidate.
The government has a year to oversee the drafting of a constitution, a key part of the deal that ended a conflict with Maoist insurgents that killed more than 13,000 people.
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