Nepal Seeks to Break Rebel Siege with Air Patrols
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Military helicopters provided air cover to vehicles ferrying crucial supplies to the Nepali capital on Sunday, a senior army officer said, as a blockade called by Maoist rebels stretched into its fifth day.
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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 ordered more troops to patrol highways and warned against hoarding in an effort to break a Maoist blockade across the nation, the biggest challenge so far to King Gyanendra's seizure of absolute power this month.
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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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Nepal&#39;s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said on Thursday that he would seek more help from India to crush a Maoist revolt wracking his homeland as he began talks with senior Indian leaders in New Delhi.
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A strike by rebels shut down more  than a third of Nepal on Tuesday, including Kathmandu, the  latest stoppage in their campaign for a communist republic  after last month's crippling road blockade of the hill-ringed  capital.
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KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's embattled government offered to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the capital yesterday after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and around Katmandu, officials said.
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Nepal's army vowed on Friday to strike decisively to force Maoist rebels fighting to topple the monarchy to begin peace talks just days after the king sacked the government, arrested political leaders and seized power.
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Nepal is to probe disappearances of left-wing activists - a major demand of Maoist rebels blockading the capital.
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Nepal will form a new interim government that will include communist rebels, who have waged a decade-long insurgency that has killed 13,000 people in this Himalayan nation, the elusive rebel leader said Friday after meeting with the prime minister.
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The fear of attack kept most vehicles off roads leading to Nepal's capital for a second day on Thursday as authorities sought talks to end a siege called by Maoist insurgents.
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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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Nepal's army and police used  excessive force to crack down on April's protests against King  Gyanendra, causing deaths and injuries to demonstrators and  civilians, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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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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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 is to probe disappearances of left-wing activists - a major demand of Maoist blockading the capital.
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Nepal has appealed to the Iraqi government for help in securing the release of 13 Nepalese hostages.