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Myanmar military
officer
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BANGKOK: A Myanmar military officer has fled to Thailand to seek
asylum, apparently because he refused orders to attack Buddhist
monks in antijunta protests, a senior Thai intelligence official
said Wednesday.
Major Hla Win entered Thailand with help from a
nongovernment organization, and he hopes to apply for asylum in
Norway, the official told AFP.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Iran must come
clean soon–UN’s ElBaradei
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LONDON: Iran must provide key
details on its nuclear program by late November or its unwillingness
to work with the international community will “backfire,” the
UN’s nuclear chief said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Kouchner breaks
ranks to criticize ‘prime minister’ Putin
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BRUSSELS: French Foreign Minister
Bernard Kouchner expressed concern Tuesday at Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s plans to take the post of prime minister,
although the EU said it was an “internal” matter.
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Republicans face
up to daunting 2008 elections
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WASHINGTON: Superficially, the 2008 US
presidential election should be a nightmare for Republicans, with
political trends, poll numbers, an unpopular war and voter angst
auguring a Democrat in the White House.
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Abuse of Tamiflu
can create resistant
bird-flu strains, says scientists
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PARIS: Swedish scientists say
that Tamiflu—the frontline weapon in any bird-flu
pandemic—cannot be broken down by sewage systems and this could
help the virus mutate dangerously into a drug-resistant strain.
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INBRIEF
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TOKYO: Japan said
Wednesday it may scale down a naval mission supporting US-led forces
in Afghanistan to try to resolve a row with the opposition that
helped bring down the previous government.
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