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Asia

Nepal makes chief judge prime minister

Baburam Bhattarai. Photo: AFP

Nepal’s quiet, barely known chief justice is on the verge of taking almost total control of the Himalayan nation, becoming the interim head of government as well as the top judge in a country that has been without a legislature for months.

It seems to be the only thing the country’s furiously feuding politicians can agree on, even though one of them calls the move “flawed in every way.”