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 and Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal Dahal wave after announcing the unification of the two parties 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)