Peru seeks end to rebel siege
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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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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Mahmud Abbas has called for an end to the armed uprising, the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian President Alejandro Toledosaid on Thursday he would cooperate with a probe intoallegations he helped forge signatures to register his partyfor the 2000 election, but warned of a "conspiracy againstdemocracy" trying to bring down his government.
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LIMA, Peru  - The Peruvian government on Sunday  denied planning an imminent offensive after urging residents  living near a captured police station in the southern Andes to  leave their homes.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A delicate mission to free three hostages held by Colombian guerrillas was close to collapse on Monday as the government and rebel leaders accused each other of trying to kill the deal.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 11 -- President Hugo ChÃÂ¿vez took the side of rebels in neighboring Colombia's decades-old civil conflict Friday, calling the guerrillas "true armies" and urging the international community to stop considering them terrorists.
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UN forces hold off a rebel advance in the wake of a failed offensive by government forces.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that seized a police station and part of a southern  Peruvian town to demand the resignation of President Alejandro  Toledo said it would hand in its weapons on Monday.
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A state of emergency is declared in a city in southern Peru, after protests against the local government.
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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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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- The leader of a paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late last night as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  threatened to storm a police station seized on New Year's Day  by an armed group demanding the president's resignation, and  warned residents to get out of the area.
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Several insurgent groups have approached Thai officials for talks to end nearly three years of unrest in the Muslim-majority south but they must first impose a ceasefire, the region's top general said on Thursday.
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Peru's president urges MPs to impose the death penalty, after an attack by suspected rebels kills eight people.
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The last active leader of Peru's Shining Path guerrillas proposes to stop fighting in return for an amnesty.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.