Word: overran
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...member Mohammed Hurrani, though part of Arafat's Fatah movement, called the resignation "a great victory." NEPAL Maoist Mayhem Nepal's guerrilla war intensified as Maoist rebels killed 58 policemen and soldiers in the town of Sandikharka, 295 km west of the capital Katmandu. More than 4,000 rebels overran the remote town, where 200 soldiers were garrisoned. Less than 24 hours earlier Maoists killed 49 policemen in Bhiman in southeast Nepal. CHINA Dalai Envoys Representatives of the Dalai Lama visited Beijing in the first formal exchange in nine years between China and the exiled Tibetan leader. The delegation included...
...intervened. After Spanish midfielder Joaquin muffed his side's fourth penalty, Korean captain Hong Myung Bo drove the ball into the top of the net, clinching victory. "I am not sure what is real and what is a dream," said Jo, as more than 1 million red-shirted fans overran the streets of Seoul in glee. "It's like the whole world has turned upside down...
...Himalayan hills. Their rockets cut through the walls of government offices and police stations, while mortars whistled overhead. After forcing residents into the open, the guerrillas blew buildings apart. They ransacked the bank, making off with $263,000, and freed 16 comrades from the Mangalsen jail while more troops overran Sanfebagar airport 20 km away, one of the few operable runways in Nepal's far west...
...Hassan Awaale. "We have enough problems of our own without more [from them]." U.N. officials, Western diplomats and aid workers agree that al-Itihaad training camps of the '90s don't exist anymore and that the group was destroyed as a military force after Ethiopian forces entered Somalia and overran the group...
...which is to say there is still a long way and a lot of bloodletting to go. Mazar had barely been liberated last Friday when Dostum's forces overran the towns of Tashkurghan and Hairatan and zeroed in on Kunduz, one of the last Taliban strongholds in northern Afghanistan. A senior Alliance official told TIME that the Alliance now controls the northwest and has advanced as far south as Pul-i-Khumri?100 miles away from the capital, Kabul. The official said Taliban soldiers stranded in Kunduz and further east in Taloqan have been cut off from fresh supplies...