Maoist guerrillas killed the Mayor of Peru's second-largest city and his driver today and set fire to an agricultural cooperative, the police said.

Maoist guerrillas planted a land mine that killed at least 22 people on Tuesday in a remote tribal corner of central India, the police reported.

For over a century, there has been encroachment onto Asháninka land from rubber tappers, loggers, Maoist guerrillas, drug traffickers, colonisers, and oil companies.

Maoist guerrillas of the Shining Path movement killed at least 14 people in the Andes in the last week, the police reported today.

Maoist guerrillas have harassed the Santa Lucia base with small-arms fire.

However, Maoist guerrillas exploded a landmine in West Bengal's Purulia district, injuring a paramilitary trooper.

The alleged massacres of 500 Maoist guerrillas in May, if it is true, will only make the situation worse.

While some political parties favor a ceremonial role for the king, leftist parties, along with Maoist guerrillas, insist on the monarchy's abolition.

Now the country is wondering whether an unsteady six-month cease-fire with Maoist guerrillas can survive during off-and-on peace negotiations.

Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police van in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India, killing 18 people, mostly police officers.