Peru Rebel Siege Over, Weapons Surrendered
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LIMA, Peru  - Rebels who laid siege to a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the president's resignation decided to surrender  their weapons Tuesday, a government statement said.
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BAGHDAD, March 12 -- The armed men who entered a village in Diyala province Saturday after sunset seized the residents' weapons and made a request that turned out to be an ultimatum.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station in a southern  Andean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demanding  the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru declared a state of emergency  in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas on Saturday where an  armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police  station and was holding 10 officers hostage.
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NAJAF - Rebel fighters streamed out of this city&#39;s revered shrine yesterday and carted away their weapons on pushcarts covered with blankets, a day after Iraq&#39;s most respected cleric brokered a truce to end their bloody three-week battle with US and Iraqi
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Peruvian forces take positions around a  police station where a group of army reservists are holding hostages.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - For the first time,  all of the militia fighters in an Afghan region have been  disarmed as fighters loyal to two northern commanders gave up  their guns under a U.N.-run drive to demilitarize the country.
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By Jude Webber and Monica Vargas LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radicalformer soldier stormed a police station in a southern town onSaturday and took 10 officers hostage to demand the resignationof Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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An arms surrender by renegade soldiers in East Timor is a token step that could usher in short-term stability following recent violence, but seizing weapons that have fallen into civilian hands is key to lasting peace, analysts said.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized part of a southern  Peruvian town in demanding the president resign said it will  hand over its weapons on Monday.
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The United Nations on Sunday wraps up the voluntary phase of its campaign to disarm fighters from Liberia's civil war, having enrolled more than 85,000 people from three warring factions and collecting some 26,000 weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition.
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Central African Republic forces (FACA) on Tuesday peacefully took back control of the airfield at Birao that they had abandoned following rebel attacks at the weekend, both sides said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces allowed civilians to return to Tal Afar on Tuesday, signaling an end to a siege of the northern city that killed dozens of people and angered U.S. ally Turkey.
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By Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press, 9/14/2004 07:48. TAL AFAR, Iraq  US and Iraqi forces allowed civilians to return to Tal Afar on Tuesday, signaling an end to a siege of the northern city that
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that seized a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo agreed  to surrender on Tuesday, police said.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of an armed group which  took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town three  days ago and demanded the president's resignation made a fresh  promise on Monday to surrender.
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Three gang members surrendered their guns Monday in the first handover of weapons in a U.N.-led effort to disarm hundreds of Haitian criminals.