Nepal PM invites Maoist rebels for new talks on bloody insurgency
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Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has invited Maoist rebels to resume negotiations that broke down over a year ago but said he would only offer a key concession if the guerrillas agreed to talk.
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Nepal ordered more troops and  helicopters to patrol highways and break an indefinite Maoist  blockade across the nation, a government minister said on  Sunday, in the first test of nerves since King Gyanendra took  power.
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Maoist rebels and the Nepal government said they had settled a dispute over monitoring each other's fighters and weapons, a move which revives their peace process and power-sharing plans.
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Nepal&#39;s embattled government has offered to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the capital after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and around Kathmandu.
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Nepal's Maoist rebels accused the   multi-party interim government on Thursday of reneging on   promises and setting new conditions in a bid to hold on to   power as formal peace talks between them were further delayed.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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Maoist rebels, who have cut off Nepal's capital for four days, pledged to expand their campaign to the Tibetan border as fresh violence left a police officer dead.
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Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba makes an official call to Maoists rebels to join peace talks.
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KHANIKHOLA, Nepal  - Nepal's Maoist rebels  rejected peace talks with the new government and began an  indefinite blockade across the landlocked Himalayan kingdom on  Saturday to oppose King Gyanendra's assumption of power.
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Nepal was preparing a response to the  latest terms for fresh talks from Maoist rebels, a minister  said on Wednesday, as nearly half of the kingdom shut down for  a second day in a rebel-sponsored strike.
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Nepal's army said on Friday it would step up its offensive against Maoist rebels fighting to overthrow the monarchy, days after the king sacked the government, arrested political leaders and seized power.
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Imphal: Winding up his visit to the trouble-torn Manipur, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday extended an open invitation to all groups including ULFA, who abjure violence, for talks to resolve all outstanding issues in the North East and expressed
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Nine Maoist rebels and four policemen died in fresh clashes in Nepal, bringing the number of dead from revolt-related violence in the past week to at least 131, officials said.
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Nepal's main opposition party urged  the government Monday to call a unilateral cease-fire with  Maoist rebels and seek peace talks to end a road blockade that  has cut the capital off from the rest of the country.
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Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba held talks with his Indian counterpart on Thursday to try to secure more help to crush an increasingly deadly Maoist revolt in the poor Himalayan nation.
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Nepal's home minister delayed a trip to India after Maoist rebels asked him to focus on preparations for upcoming talks between the guerrillas and the premier, officials said.
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Nepal's government is due to hold talks with former Maoist rebels, a day after they said they were leaving the cabinet.