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The chairman of the largest communist party in Nepal, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, has been sworn in as the country’s new prime minister. Oli leads a coalition of the country’s two largest political parties. He was was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Chandra Paudel at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Monday, the state-owned Rising Nepal online newspaper reported. The 72-year-old communist party veteran took the helm of government on Sunday, two days after outgoing Premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a confidence vote in the country’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives….

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