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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Rumours were flying this morning about an arsenal explosion near Khao Lak National Park in Phang-nga province this morning . Rear Adm.
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Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect a set of unarmed cruise missiles bound for a weapons graveyard. They quickly pulled out a dozen cylinders, all of which appeared identical from a cursory...
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Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said Friday he found no sign the blast was nuclear.
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Forty-six countries agreed Friday to push for a global treaty banning cluster bombs, a move activists hope will force the superpowers that oppose the effort _ the U.S., China and Russia _ to abandon the ...Comment
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The hunt for the bombers of a train from India to Pakistan spread to several north Indian states on Thursday as investigators said they were pursuing new clues and had detained two people for questioning.
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Five countries will stage a fresh push to persuade North Korea to forsake nuclear weapons in talks opening on Monday, with key negotiators wary over how Pyongyang will respond after staging its first atomic blast.
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Video footage of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion occurred showed dozens of workers swarming around a dusty construction site resembling a large dam project, while a foreign diplomat who visited the site said Friday he found no sign the
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HANOI, Vietnam - Authorities in Vietnam's southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City seized one ton of Chinese-made sex toys, aphrodisiacs and other sexual stimulants, state-controlled media reported Friday.
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By Yuthana Praiwan, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 8--Authorities say they will move quickly to set limits on volatile  organic compounds following the discovery of about 500 leaks of various  substances from factories in the Map Ta Phut area of Rayong.
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U.S. officials said Tuesday they are willing to negotiate a treaty on the use of cluster bombs, reversing their position that no new agreement on the weapon was necessary.
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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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A Vatican delegation will meet with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi next week as the Holy See strives for diplomatic relations with the Communist-run country, Vatican officials said Thursday. Monsignor Pietro Parolin, an undersecretary of state, will lead the delegation, which departs Sunday.
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Foreign diplomats are taken to a dam project which North Korea says was the site of a massive blast last week.
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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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A person or persons claiming to represent Turkish interests have defaced a Vietnam War memorial site run by vets. "Turk Defacer" left messages attacking the U.S., Israel, Armenia and the Kurds, the latter two of which have been targets of Turkish genocidal efforts.
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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.