Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war
YANGON, Dec 28 (AFP): Voters trickled to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government and triggered a civil war.Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed, while her hugely...
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Israel seals off Palestinian village
GAZA, Dec 28 (Agencies): Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident killed two people in Israel."The IDF (Israeli army) is operating forcefully against terror hubs in the village of Qabatiya... accompanied...
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Thais, Cambodians fear returning home despite border truce
BANGKOK, Dec 28 (AFP): At a Thai university-turned-shelter for displaced people, Kanlaya Somjettana is reluctant to go home even after a truce halted weeks of border clashes with Cambodia, fearing the violence may not be over.She said some people forced to flee the fighting began returning home on Sunday, a...
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French legend Brigitte Bardot dead at 91
PARIS, Dec 28 (AFP): French film legend Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights protector, has died aged 91, her foundation said Sunday.Bardot had rarely been seen in public in recent months but was hospitalised in...
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Russia will achieve its Ukraine aims by force if Kyiv doesn't want peace: PutinMOSCOW, Dec 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force. Putin's remarks on...
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