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04 December 2009 10:27 AM | Tagged: officials indian rebel arrested
GAUHATI, India - The commander of a powerful rebel movement in India's remote northeast was arrested along with a top deputy, officials said Friday, in a major blow to a separatist army already crippled by a string of arrests. Indian officials said

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02 December 2009 4:57 AM | Tagged: mother reputed zapatista rebel dies
MEXICO CITY - The mother of the man Mexico's government has identified as Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos has died at Mexico City's airport. Airport spokesman Jose Luis Hernandez says 70-year-old Socorro Vicente Gonzalez died Monday of a

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30 November 2009 2:57 AM | Tagged: former rebel leader uruguays presidentelect
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now the president-elect of Uruguay. Jose Mujica won more than 50 percent of the votes cast in a run-off election Sund

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26 November 2009 2:37 AM | Tagged: un report congo rebel network spans countries
CONAKRY, Guinea - One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries, including the United States and some in Europe, a United Nations report said. The U.N. findings show that t

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25 November 2009 4:27 PM | Tagged: un report rebel network spans countries
CONAKRY, Guinea - A United Nations report leaked to The Associated Press confirms that one of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the United States and Euro

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22 November 2009 1:07 AM | Tagged: pressure progress talks rebel karabakh
MUNICH, Germany - Azerbaijan and Armenia hold talks on Sunday on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, with Azeri ally Turkey pressing for progress before it seals an historic rapprochement with neighboring Armenia. Oil-producing Azerbaijan has raised the

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21 November 2009 5:47 AM | Tagged: rebel conflict heightens humanitarian crisis yemen
MAZRAQ, YEMEN From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by a civil war

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11 November 2009 6:47 PM | Tagged: make peace moms dying rebel leader son
KAMPALA, Uganda - The mother of one of Africa's most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death Wednesday, according to a nurse at her deathbed: Make peace. Norah Anek, 86, the mother of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Ko