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Thursday, October 18, 2007

  

‘China strongly resentful, resolutely opposes it’

Bush to headline US Dalai Lama tribute


WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush and top US legislators were set to lead Wednesday an unprecedented official US tribute to the Dalai Lama, bucking China’s angry warnings of crippled Sino-US relations.

In a 1 p.m. ceremony at the Capitol, Bush is scheduled to deliver brief remarks and hand Tibet’s spiritual leader a US Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award bestowed by US lawmakers.

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UNITED NATIONS: Burkina-Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Libya and Vietnam were Tuesday elected nonper­manent members of the UN Security Council for two years beginning next January 1.

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KUALA LUMPUR: UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari wants Southeast Asian nations to turn their rhetoric on Myanmar into real action to achieve reforms, a senior source briefed by the diplomat said Wednesday.

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BEIJING: China’s top consumer standards official vowed Wednesday to ensure product safety of Chinese-made toys by Christmas, amid continuing recalls of unsafe and tarnished products across the world.

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JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has held Washington talks with his US counterpart Robert Gates on the joint development of a missile interception system, his office said on Wednesday.

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WORLD INBRIEF

SEOUL: South and North Korea will hold talks next week on ways to deliver energy aid to the communist country as compensation for its promised nuclear shutdown, officials said Wednesday.

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