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Obama walks a fine line with Myanmar president's landmark visit
Reuters* Myanmar president in first visit to Washington * Concern about rights abuses in ethnic conflict * Washington wants to foster ally on China's border By Paul Eckert WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between...Tags: China, Politics, Washington, DC, Crime, Law and Justice, Wars and Interventions
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BRIEF: Restaurant, Legion pay tribute to POWs, MIAs
Reading Eagle, Pa.A local American Legion post set a memorial table for one Saturday at a city restaurant to honor veterans missing in action and prisoners of war. "This is in memory of our POWs and MIA veterans," said Peter Szpak, commander of the American Legion Gen....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Prisons, American Legion
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Myanmar leader's record on reform pledges mixed going into historic White House meeting
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking "action for action" by deepening ties in response to...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Religion and Belief, Government, Wars and Interventions
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Myanmar frees dissidents before leader's U.S. visit
NEW DELHI — Myanmar President Thein Sein released some 20 political prisoners Friday, days before a historic summit with President Obama in Washington early next week, according to officials and prisoner rights groups. The ex-general's...
Tags: China, Politics, Justice and Rights, Activism, Civil Rights
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Jorge Rafael Videla dies at 87; Argentine dictator
BUENOS AIRES — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who presided over that country's so-called dirty war in which up to 30,000 dissidents were murdered or disappeared, died Friday while serving a 50-year prison sentence. He was 87. He...
Tags: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Rebellions, Politics, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bataan survivor shares his message
Public Opinion, Chambersburg, Pa.Editor's note: Col. (Ret.) Glenn Dowling Frazier will also speak this Saturday, May 18, at 11 a.m. at Letterkenny Chapel, Letterkenny Army Depot, for the Annual Community POW/MIA Service of Remembrance. He lived through hell as a prisoner of war, but...Tags: Armed Forces, Philippines, Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Army
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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, Government, Credit and Debt, Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Former Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87
ReutersBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87....Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights, Theft, Nobel Prize Awards
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Myanmar frees political prisoners before president goes to US
ReutersYANGON, May 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's government has freed 23 political prisoners, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday, the day President Thein Sein was due to leave for a landmark visit to the United States. The official declined to be...Tags: Politics, Government, National Government, Wars and Interventions, Thein Sein
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World War II veteran, POW shares experiences of war
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comWith the number of World War II veterans dying at the rate of more than 600 per day, it was a rare occasion to have two veterans of the conflict together in Chambersburg on Thursday. World War II veteran and best-selling author of “Hell’s...Tags: Philippines, Human Interest, U.S. Army, Pneumonia, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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Suspected militants kidnap 7 Egyptian security personnel in Sinai
Associated PressCAIRO (AP) — Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said. It was the first such kidnapping of security forces in the lawless peninsula. The...Tags: Armed Forces, Kidnapping, Politics, Egypt, Israel
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Guantanamo hunger strike tally hits 102
Miami HeraldU.S. military medical providers counted 102 Guantanamo prisoners as hunger strikers on Thursday, the first increase after three weeks when the number seemed to plateau at 100. Navy medical workers were tube feeding 30 of the hunger strikers, said Army...Tags: Strikes, Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Central Intelligence Agency
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