Hidden bombs stalk Vietnamese as states seek treaty
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DONG HA, Vietnam  - In the same week that dozens of countries declared plans to ban cluster munitions, a boy was killed by the explosion of a steel ball he picked up and threw while tending livestock.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A coordinated string of at least 29 bomb blasts in Thailand's largely Muslim south may have been timed for the start of Lunar New Year festivities and intended to frighten ethnic Chinese traders as part of a campaign to damage the economy, a military spokesman said this week.
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North Korea is suspected of test-firing a number of short-range missiles off its west coast.
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Rights groups claim the release of a prominent dissident only indicates that Hanoi is finding subtler means of stifling its critics
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The U.S. and allied navies conduct war games off India. But some of the participants are hoping Beijing won't notice
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After securing the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear reactor, negotiators gathering in Beijing on Tuesday face the much harder task of coaxing Pyongyang to give up a trove of atomic secrets long guarded as vital for its survival.
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NGHE AN PROVINCE, VIETNAM -- ''They tell me to dig a hole,&quot; said Derek Benedix, ''and I dig a hole.&quot;
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The 50-foot Swift boats were easy targets as they plowed through the waterways of the Mekong Delta in packs of three or four, making big waves and thunderous noise when approaching. Former Viet Cong soldier Duong Hoang Sinh remembers them well &#151; the one time he tangled with three Swift boats, the Americans killed all of the insurgents in his unit except for two.
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ZEBQIN, Lebanon  - At the bottom of a deep pit gouged by a bulldozer, a Chinese soldier in a protective visor shovels aside earth to reveal an unexploded bomb left over from Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
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Diplomats who visited the scene of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said the site was a hydroelectric construction project, and one envoy said more blasts were planned, Kyodo news agency reported.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.
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BEIJING - Foreign diplomats who visited the site of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said yesterday it was a hydroelectric project under heavy construction.
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Thousands of unexploded U.S.-made cluster bomblets scattered across the hills and valleys continue to take lives
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U.N. experts have received satellite imagery of the site struck last month by Israeli warplanes and are analyzing it for signs that it might have been a secret nuclear facility, diplomats said Friday.
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Diplomats from eight countries are on their way to the site of a mysterious blast in North Korea that sparked speculation a nuclear test had taken place.
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BEIJING -- Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said yesterday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.
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LOUT, Cambodia  - When Vietnamese troops overran  his village in 1979, Romam Chhung Loeung, a Khmer Rouge  guerrilla, had no option but to flee with friends and family  into the dense jungle of northeast Cambodia.