Nepal's Maoists faced a race against time on Thursday to meet a deadline to form a national unity government with opposition parties, end political turmoil and steer the country towards elections.
Nepal has been run by a caretaker Maoist-led government since the collapse in May of an interim assembly that had failed in its main task of drawing up a new constitution following a 10-year civil war that ended in 2006.AFP
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