Nepal to declare republic
Updated on 28 May 2008
Nepal stood on the brink of becoming the world's newest republic after swearing in an assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule.
But with the world's last Hindu king still living in the pink-hued, 1970s-era concrete palace that dominates central Kathmandu, political leaders were threatening to remove him by force.
"He has no choice, but if he refuses to leave the palace we will use the law to force him out of there," Baburam Bhattarai, the deputy leader of the Maoists, Nepal's former rebels, said.
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