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DESPITE WARMING OF TIES WITH MAINLAND
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Taiwanese president not ready for Hu Jintao
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TAIPEI: Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Tuesday he will not
consider meeting his Chinese
counterpart Hu Jintao until a raft of
decades-old problems between the two sides have been resolved, it
was reported.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Thai govt to deploy thousands to summit
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BANGKOK: Thailand will deploy a 14,000-strong team to police a
regional summit on the resort island of Phuket, a senior military
official told AFP Tuesday, after similar scuppered talks in April.
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Liberia’s Charles Taylor denies war crimes, other charges
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THE HAGUE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor dismissed
charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as “lies”
Tuesday as he took the stand for the first time at his landmark
trial in The Hague.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sonia Sotomayor, almost sure to become the first
Hispanic US Supreme Court justice, was expected to face tough
questioning Tuesday from Republican senators openly skeptical of her
impartiality.
-- AFP
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