Katmandu Largely Isolated After Threats
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Communist rebels in Nepal threatened to attack any vehicle traveling on main roads, creating a virtual blockade around the capital to press their demands that the government release detained guerrillas.
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BAZARAK, Afghanistan  - Its high peaks and proudly  independent people protected Afghanistan's Panjsher Valley from  the Soviets and the Taliban, but this very isolation and pride  could see it left behind in the race for development.
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Over the past few days, tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled the western part of the country because of ethnic violence.
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KATMANDU, Nepal Aug. 18, 2004  Communist rebels isolated Nepal&#39;s capital from the rest of the country Wednesday, stopping all road traffic near Katmandu by threatening to attack vehicles a campaign announced last week aimed at pressuring the government ...
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Kegalle Panangarama, a Buddhist monk and community leader, expressed frustration as he outlined the obstacles plaguing local recovery efforts in his tsunami-wrecked region.
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A town in the mineral rich Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to a mysterious group of militants. Going by the name of the Liberation Movement for
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[World News]: COLOMBO, Dec 30 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said today that the threat of a war with Tamil Tigers was &quot;remoter&quot; after destruction of key rebel military bases by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
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A week after Myanmar&#39;s junta cracked down on peaceful protests against soaring fuel costs here, residents now live in fear, with few daring to venture out into a city swarming with plainclothes police.
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Tribal animosities are flaring anew just as security forces seem stretched too thin to react.
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BURNT FOREST, Kenya, Jan. 7 -- The two friends had talked politics easily before the presidential election, but in the days after, the relatively tolerant mood here in western Kenya vanished.
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NAGDHUNGA, Nepal  - Nepal's capital was cut off  from the rest of the country Wednesday and the supply of food  and goods disrupted as Maoist rebels enforced a blockade of the  city of 1.5 million people with threats to attack vehicles.
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ARANDIS, Namibia -- This sandy little company town, with its tree-lined streets and concrete homes set amid a vast, forbidding desert, had all the signs of terminal decline just a few years back. Both banks closed. The only gas station shut off its pumps. And employable young men, realizing the bleak future of the giant uranium mine that gave Arandis life, began drifting away....
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KATMANDU, Nepal -- The gates to the party headquarters are locked, the offices empty. But around back, a party official gestures to a group of visitors to follow him and drives a few blocks away on his motorcycle. He stops along a busy road, hoping no one will notice him amid the clamor of Katmandu's morning traffic.
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KATMANDU, Nepal  - Suspected Maoist rebels shot and wounded a policeman and detonated two powerful bombs in Katmandu on Friday to reinforce a blockade of the Nepali capital to press for the release of jailed guerrillas.
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The once quiet Himalayan Hindu kingdom Nepal has turned unsettled since 1996 when members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) went violent on some of their demands.
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The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
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Nepal 34 die in gun battles after rebel ambush KATMANDU -- Communist rebels ambushed two separate army patrols in western Nepal, sparking gun battles that killed at least 34 people, including five civilians, the army said yesterday. The guerrillas attacked a patrol near Madhuradanda village, about 190 miles west of the capital, Katmandu, killing two soldiers. Separately, five soldiers were ...