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...Rebels Retract TURKEY The Kurdish rebel group PKK called off a four-year cease-fire, accusing the government of failing to reciprocate. The move threatened to upset talks between Ankara and Pentagon officials on the possible deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq. Washington has not yet fulfilled its promise to eject the estimated 5,000 PKK militants believed to be based in northern Iraq...
...Estimated number of people who disappeared or died between 1980 and 2000 in Peru's Maoist rebel...
...Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly - a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion last September that plunged the country into civil war. Since January, a French-brokered peace accord has left the nation divided between government and rebel-controlled zones. A would-be reconciliation government composed of members from both factions has become bogged down in mutual hostility and distrust. Ironically, Gbagbo supporters who have long suspected France of colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo...
Democratic Enough? Rwanda In the first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide, incumbent leader Paul Kagame - the rebel general credited with ousting the Hutu government that orchestrated the killings, and who has led the country as part of a transitional government since 2000 - retained control with a 95% share of the vote. But while Kagame claimed "Rwanda is on the right path," defeated challenger Faustin Twagiramungu was quick to reject the ballot, claiming his campaign was stymied by intimidation...
...agency's informal chain of command and its courting of greater risk in order to meet scheduling targets. NASA promised to comply fully with the findings. Grim Reckoning PERU The government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission claimed at least 69,000 people died or disappeared during two decades of rebel and state-sponsored violence, almost twice the previous estimates. The commission blamed the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path for more than half of the killings carried out between 1980 and 2000, and government troops for much of the rest. Most of the victims were Quechua-speaking peasants. Nuclear Traces IRAN...