1.   Maoist insurgents, operating in near-perfect guerrilla habitat, are creating bloody havoc in the countryside.

2.   Maoist insurgents attacked a police patrol in midwestern Nepal Sunday, killing two policemen and losing three of their fighters in an exchange of gunfire, police said.

3.   Maoist insurgents opposed to general elections starting this week ambushed a team of police and election officials with explosives Saturday, injuring five people, police said.

4.   Maoist insurgents find fertile ground in Nepal.

5.   Maoist insurgents have been waging an armed campaign in Bihar for more than two decades to rescue poor farmers in the state from virtual bondage by rich landowners.

6.   Maoist insurgents have killed six people while one rebel died in fighting in Nepal, officials and witnesses said Sunday.