Anti-Monarchy Rebels Fight Huge Gun Battle with Army ; World at a Glance

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. HUNDREDS of Maoist rebels stormed a town in eastern Nepal and fought a six-hour gun battle with security forces, as authorities clamped a fresh curfew on the capital to thwart antimonarchy protests.

The rebels, who control vast swathes of the countryside, have fought since 1996 to unseat the king and establish a communist republic in a conflict that has cost more than 13,000 lives.

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Anti-Monarchy Rebels Fight Huge Gun Battle with Army ; World at a Glance

Last night hundreds of rebels attacked a police station, a telecom tower, a district administration office and a jail at Chautara, about 60 mil...

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