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WASHINGTON March 12, 2010 Myanmar’s military government has enacted new laws for elections due later this year. The United States feels it makes a "mockery" of democracy. In the circumstances, the elections will be a joke, U.S. said on Wednesday. It also felt it would weaken U.S. efforts to improve ties with the country earlier known as Burma.
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BAKU March 11, 2010 Two Azerbaijani opposition bloggers, Adnan Hajizade, 26, and Emin Milli, 30, were sentenced to two years and two and a half years imprisonment over a violent incident in a cafe in the capital Baku last July.
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WASHINGTON Feb 27, 2010 U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan will launch a new military operation later this year to get full control of Kandahar, the
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TOKYO Feb 27, 2010 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may be visiting China in early May to meet President Hu Jintao, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 27, 2010 Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, the two U.S. missionaries still in jail in Haiti will not be freed at least until Tuesday.
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CHENNAI Feb 26, 2010 Karun Chandhok is in the final stages of talks with Campos Meta Formula One team for a drive in the 2010 season, his manager said today. Spain’s Campos is one of the four new teams in an expanded F1 grid in the new season. It has so far named only one driver, Brazilian Bruno Senna. Bruno is the nephew of late F1 world champion Ayrton Senna and Chandhok’s former GP2 team mate. India’s only Formula One driver to date was Narain Karthikeyan, who was with Team Jordan in 2005.
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BANGKOK Feb 26, 2010 Thailand’s Supreme Court today seized $1.4 billion worth of assets belonging to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s family. This leaves about $900 million untouched. The decision could make some anti-government groups happy.
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WASHINGTON Feb 26, 2010 The United States said on Thursday it does not aim to put crippling sanctions on Iran. Instead, it would pressure the Iranian government to change course on its nuclear program.
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CANBERRA Feb 26, 2010 International governments are getting increasingly angry over the killing of a top Hamas commander in Dubai. Now, Australia has
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AMSTERDAM Feb 25, 2010 Opinion polls say 19 percent of Dutch voters would choose Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende for another term as leader, in the June 9 elections. He has been Prime Minister since 2002.
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