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Congolese troops and M23 rebels bombarded each other near the Ugandan border on Monday and international envoys called on both sides to cease fire and allow a peace deal to take hold. Congo s army accused the rebels of shelling the frontier town of Bunagana and said it showed M23 s ceasefire declaration at the weekend was worthless. The rebels said they were ready to sign a peace deal but that
stanley cup they had been attacked with heavy weapons. A rapid army advance in the last few weeks has driven rebels from towns and cornered them in the steep, forested hills along the Ugandan border, raising the prospect of an end to a 20-month rebellion that has gripped Congo s mineral-rich east. South Africa is hosting leaders from the Great Lakes region
stanley cup and southern Africa to back Ugandan-sponsored peace efforts, but the latest violence shows the Kinshasa government and the rebels remain far apart. This is not fighting, it is bombs launched by M23 targeting the population of Bunagana, Congo army spokesman Colonel Olivier Hamuli said by phone. They are targeting civilians. Bunagana was the last rebel-controlled town to be recaptured last week and rebels are still in the hills nearby. A Reuters reporter said government troops had seized Mbuzi, a strategic hilltop above Bunagana, on Monday after hitting it with tank and rocket fire. Seven rebels were captured, he said. On Sunday M23 announced a ceasefire - a declaration Hamuli described as a li
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As Bhutans King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk lit 1,000 butter lamps in his throne room to mourn the 18 Bhutanese killed in an air c
stanley cup rash in Nepal and the Buddhist kingdoms central monks body began three days mourning rituals, Nepal on Friday began investigating the passen
stanley cup ger list that had described the group as Nepalis. HT Image The general manager of the Kathmandu-based travel agency that had helped the group of Bhutanese pilgrims charter an aircraft was arrested by police on Thursday soon after the crash was confirmed. On Friday, the internal revenue authorities were to quiz Kamala Gurung, general manager of Travel Light Pvt Ltd, on how the 18 Bhutanese passengers had been passed off as Nepalis. The Twin Otter flown by domestic Nepali airline Tara Air, which crashed in eastern Nepal Wednesday soon after taking off for Kathmandu, was initially thought to be carrying 19 Nepali pilgrims besides a three-member Nepali crew. However, after the wreck of the plane was located in a forest in eastern Nepal Thursday and searchers confirmed that all 22 people on board were dead, queries by anxious relatives from Bhutan revealed that the majority of the victims were actually Bhutanese. Only one man, said to be of Tibetan origin, was carrying an American passport. The substitution is said to have been done deliberately
stanley cup to enable the travellers to get the concessional fare charged from Nepali citizens. Gurung pleaded innocence, saying the passengers had described themselves as
