Nepal's 2 major parties merge to form Nepal Communist Party

Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) (CPN-UML) K.P. Sharma Oli (R) and Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal Dahal sign the agreement to declare the merger and formation of a single communist party in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 17, 2018. After a series of meetings and months-long negotiations, Nepal's two major left-wing parties declared their unification and launched the new communist party on Thursday. (Xinhua/Sulav Shrestha)