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MONROVIA: Rebels pushed further on Sunday into Liberia's war-ravaged capital where they exchanged mortar and machine-gun fire with government troops in a battle for control of two key bridges leading to the city centre after the President, Charles Taylor, vowed to fight ``to the last man.'' Rebels now control the port area and the northern part of the city in fighting that has sent tens of thousands of residents scurrying for shelter. Government gunmen were deployed on rooftops downtown and around the bridges. The rebel assault — the third against Monrovia since last month — shattered hopes that a speedy deployment of international peacekeepers could avert fresh violence in a country where hundreds of thousands have died in two savage civil wars. Combatants traded machine-gun fire on the two bridges leading into downtown Monrovia. On Saturday, Mr. Taylor repeated his pledge to step downbut only after international peacekeepers arrive to prevent a chaotic transition. — AP
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