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‘China strongly resentful, resolutely opposes
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Bush to headline US
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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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5 members elected
to UN Security Council
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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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UN envoy wants
‘real action’ from Asean on Myanmar
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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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China vows safe
toys for Christmas
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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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Barak, Gates
discuss joint US-Israel antimissile system
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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
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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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