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Asean leaders clash
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HUA HIN, Thailand: Southeast Asian leaders were
embroiled in a fresh row over human rights on Saturday after
Myanmar’s junta and Cambodia blocked activists from attending rare
face-to-face talks.
The spat erupted at the annual
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in the Thai
beach resort of Hua Hin a day after ministers from the 10-member
bloc discussed setting up a controversial rights body.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Obama to pull
combat troops out of Iraq by August 2010
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CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina: US
President Barack Obama on Friday (Sunday in Manila) ordered an end
to US combat in Iraq within 18 months, after the war poisoned
domestic politics and claimed a heavy toll in blood,...
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China, US to hold
military exchanges
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BEIJING: China and the United
States have agreed to resume high-level military exchanges, a US
defense official said Saturday, as he described two days of talks
between the two powers as extremely positive.
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Bodies found in
Bangladeshi military compound
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DHAKA: Bangladeshi soldiers
recovered 10 bodies in a second mass grave in a military compound in
the capital Saturday, bringing to 76 the death toll from an armed
mutiny staged by border guards over pay.
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Sri Lankan troops
enter last urban rebel stronghold, says military
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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops have
entered the last urban area still in the hands of Tamil Tiger
guerrillas after heavy fighting, the defense ministry said on
Saturday.
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WORLD
INBRIEF
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President
Barack Obama promised Friday (Saturday in Manila) that the United
States has no long-term designs on Afghanistan as his administration
switches focus to the war-torn country with its pullout
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