Tear gas fired outside Nepal parliament during US grant protest

In Pictures Nepal police fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds on Sunday protested against controversial $500m US aid grant.

Nepalese protesters opposing a proposed $500m US grant for Nepal clash with police outside as the parliament debates the contentious aid, in Kathmandu. [Niranjan Shreshta/AP Photo] Nepal’s government has presented a contentious half-billion-dollar aid grant from the United States for approval in parliament, triggering a new round of violent clashes between protesters and police outside the legislature.

Hundreds of protesters on Sunday tried to push through barbed-wire barricades and pelted riot police with stones. Police beat them with bamboo […]

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