Nepal rebels attack town as curfew imposed for fifth day

Nepalese security forces fought back a communist rebel attack today, as foreign diplomats sought to halt the country’s political crisis and officials placed the capital, Kathmandu under curfew for the fifth day due to anti-monarchy protests.

The diplomats, meanwhile, were reaching out to both sides – the royal palace and pro-democracy opposition parties – in hopes of finding a way out of the stalemate, one diplomat said.