| Nepal said Saturday soldiers killed 35 Maoist rebels who launched a string of violent attacks across the Himalayan kingdom on the fifth day of their fizzling five-day strike. As shops in the capital Kathmandu opened their shutters and buses and cars returned to the streets, officials said soldiers shot and killed 18 rebels Saturday in Khotang district, 156 miles east of Kathmandu. "The rebels were killed after security forces on a search operation confronted the rebels," Junior Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel told Reuters, adding no soldier was killed in the crackdown. |