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US envoy says talks
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WASHINGTON: The US ambassador to
Iraq says the recent conference with Iran and Syria on Iraqi
security was businesslike and constructive.
Zalmay
Khalilzad spoke with reporters by conference call from Baghdad after
meeting with representatives of Iran and Syria about helping pacify
their neighbor, Iraq.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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20 dead, 9 missing
in China mine flood
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BEIJING:
Twenty miners were confirmed dead and nine others were missing in a
coal mine flood late Saturday night in northeast China, state press
reported.
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Chinese legislator
seeks to oust Starbucks
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BEIJING: A
Chinese lawmaker has tabled a motion to oust US coffeehouse
Starbucks from the Forbidden City, one of Beijing’s leading
tourist attractions, adding another voice to an ongoing cultural
clash.
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Cambodian teachers
who cut boy’s fingers arrested
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PHNOM PENH:
Two Cambodian teachers were arrested on charges of cutting off the
fingers of an 11-year-old street boy they accused of stealing a
water bucket from outside their home, police said Sunday.
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US prepares for
daylight saving time
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WASHINGTON:
Americans braced for an early change of clocks to daylight saving
time, with experts expecting some confusion that could spill over
into the work week.
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Riot police cordon
off township folks to block anti-Mugabe rally
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ZIMBABWE: Riot
police on Sunday barricaded roads around a township in the
Zimbabwean capital Harare where opposition and rights groups were to
stage an antigovernment rally.
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INBRIEF
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TOKYO:
Fifteen years ago, a Japanese history professor’s discovery of
documents proving the military was involved in organized sexual
slavery forced Tokyo into a landmark apology to the thousands of
Korean women...
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