Trapped ETimor rebel demands face-to-face talks
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The fugitive East Timor rebel leader surrounded in his hideout by Australian-led troops refused Friday to negotiate with a senior government official by telephone, demanding face-to-face talks.
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negotiator for the rebel-held city says its people are being asked to chase shadows. top enemy in Iraq, or face military action. told Arabic Al Jazeera television on Thursday, adding that the government had now halted peace talks.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - E-mail may be the fastest way  to negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Colombian rebel group  holding 72 hostages, the government said on Wednesday,  declining to explain why it wanted to avoid face-to-face talks.
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Efforts at freeing hostages held by Colombian rebels stalled over the weekend after a guerrilla leader said he would not attend talks in neighboring Venezuela aimed at clinching a prisoner exchange.
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Sri Lanka said Friday it could not return to the negotiating table with the Tamil Tigers unless there was a guarantee from the rebels that they would not walk away from the talks.
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The Sri Lankan government urged separatist rebels Monday to resume stalled peace talks before the country descends into all-out civil war.
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The international force in East Timor closed in Wednesday on wanted rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, but the renegade has vowed a fight to the death.
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The government said Monday it would consider a demand from Colombia's main rebel group to hold face-to-face talks over swapping jailed insurgents for dozens of hostages, including three U.S. military contractors.
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Rebels urge Russia to peace talks before Feb. 22 cease-fire deadline.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urges rebels to talk with the government as he tours troubled north-east India.
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One of two rebel movements engaged in peace talks with Sudan's government mediated by the African Union (AU) said the negotiations had collapsed and could be suspended for weeks.
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TWO-week-old peace talks on Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region have deadlocked, one mediator said today. The African Union&#39;s chief personally appealed to both Sudan&#39;s government and Darfur&#39;s rebels to move closer to compromise.
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International security forces and U.N.  police in East Timor have launched a search for rebel leader  Major Alfredo Reinado who escaped from jail with more than 50  prisoners, officials said on Thursday.
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Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Thursday urged wanted East Timorese rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, surrounded by Canberra-led troops, to surrender.
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Talks between a rebel warlord and the  Nigerian president aimed at preventing an explosion of violence  in the oil-producing Niger Delta will resume Friday, an  organizer said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government on Sunday asked the Tamil Tigers to work for a negotiated political settlement to the ethnic conflict, a day after LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran threatened to go back to war.