From Maoist fighter to "radical moderate"
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Just three decades ago Jose Manuel Durao Barroso marched in the front line of the radical wing of Maoist students in his home country of Portugal.
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Maoist rebels in Nepal harden their stance on the future of the country as their transport blockade bites.
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The metamorphosis of a Communist Party expatriate to business consultant mirrors China's shift from a closed-door state to a freewheeling money-making society.
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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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A rebel of Chinaâs avant-garde reinvents himself as a painter, sculptor and installation artist.
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I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
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They call themselves Main Street Republicans, moderates consigned to the back alleys of politics by their own party. But despite a severe bruising in the fall election, this minority within a minority finds itself with new avenues to explore, including working more closely with Democrats.
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The Nepalese prime minister has made a fresh appeal to Maoist rebels to join talks to end their insurgency. The Maoists have been engaged in an armed struggle since 1996 to replace the monarchy with a communist republic.
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A Taliban militant warns that his movement is more sophisticated - and more brutal - than before.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died last Tuesday, is not someone you would expect to be used as a blunt-force political weapon.
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When freedom fighters in India inspired by Mahatma Gandhi turned violent in a clash with police in 1922, the nonviolent leader took personal responsibility, called off nationwide protests and starved himself for five days in a penitential fast. Gandhi was nearly alone in thinking an apology of such...
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Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla movement in Peru, appeared in public for the first time in 12 years as his retrial on terrorism charges began in Lima before a three-judge panel.
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One of the main guerrilla groups fighting Indian rule in the remote northeast is shifting its camps to Nepal following crackdowns in other neighbouring countries, an ex-rebel said Wednesday.
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Kanaiyalal Jiwanlal, a businessman from Valsad in Gujarat, has seen sectarian violence and a killer earthquake devastate parts of the western Indian state. Compared to such upheavals, the blockade of Kathmandu, called by Maoists, holds no terror for him.
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Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers' hero. He was beaten to death by Chinese city inspectors as he snapped photos of them beating villagers. The death has sparked outrage. "City inspectors are worse than the mafia," one blogger writes.
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Huang Ju, a Politburo member who rose out of Shanghaiâs political elite to become one of the most powerful leaders in China, presided over reforms to the countryâs banking system.
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The Moral Majority leader brought fundamentalist Christians into politics, but he created a force he couldn't control