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Column
US-Burma ties: from isolation to engagement
After years of diplomatic tension over isolation and sanctions, U.S.-Burma relations improved in recent months. What prospects does this rapprochement have? The relationship between the United States and Burma was mostly cordial in the years following Burma’s independence from the British in 1948. It was strained by the Burmese military…
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Business
Samsung wins $2.1 bil. power plant order
Samsung Engineering, one of Koreas leading industrial plant builders, said Tuesday that it has won a $2.1 billion project to construct a power plant in Kazakhstan. Under the deal with Balkhash Thermal Power Plant (BTPP), the engineering firm will build a coal-powered power plant. It was the first construction order…
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Analyze this for Dec. 19 poll
As usual at this time of the year, the outbreak of the three-year Korean War is being remembered. The war was started by a surprise attack by North Korea on the morning of June 25, 1950, and killed millions of civilians and soldiers. Sixty two years later today, the Korean…
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News Corp. Considers Two-Way Split
In this file photo, shows News Corp.’s headquarters in New York. Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The Wall Street Journal, News Corp.’s flagship newspaper, reported…
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Ugandan Woman Looks For Her Children Lost In Landslide
A woman cries for her four children she lost in a landslide in Bududa, about 250kms east of Uganda capital Kampala Tuesday June 26, 2012. Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda Monday, killing scores of people officials said.…
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West Asia
Syrian Civilians Wound From the Forces
In this citizen journalism image provided by Baba Amro In The Revolution’s Eye, Sunday, June 24, 2012, a Syrian injured woman sits on the ground at makeshift hospital after she was injured from Syrian forces shelling, at Kfar Aaya area, in Homs province, central Syria. The Red Cross president says…
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Turkey: No intention of war, but Syria’s downing of jet won’t go unpunished
ANKARAㅡ The Spokesperson for the Turkish government and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc on Monday said that Turkey had no intention of going to war with anyone after one of its jets was shot down by Syria last week and said it would only act in accordance with international law. “Whatever…
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West Asia
Putin Visits Israel To Talk Over Nuclear Program
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, leave after an inauguration ceremony of a memorial to Red Army veterans of World War II in Netanya, Israel, Monday June 25, 2012. The West’s standoff with Iran over its nuclear program was expected to top the agenda on Monday…
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Politics
EU condemns Syria’s downing of Turkish Jet, urges probe
The foreign ministers of 27 EU members states condemned on Monday Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish military plane and urged a thorough investigation into the incident. “The European Union notes that this is a matter which needs to be investigated thoroughly and urgently,” the EU Council of Ministers said…
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