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Trump’s calls with gulf allies offer insight on Mideast policy

  Bloomberg Two days after moving to block the entry of citizens of seven majority Muslim countries, President Donald Trump’s talks with two Gulf Arab leaders contained no public mention of the ban. The focus, instead, was on anti-terrorism efforts and confronting a mutual foe: Iran. Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, whose country is ...

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Party mourns assassination of Suu Kyi adviser

  YANGON / AP Myanmar politicians, activists and others shocked by the assassination of a longtime adviser to leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered on Monday at a cemetery for an emotional funeral ceremony, while police investigated the motive for the killing. Ko Ni, a prominent lawyer and member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority, was shot in the head at close ...

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Philippine police stop anti-drug crackdown amid scandal

  MANILA / AP The Philippine police chief stopped the use of the national police force in anti-drug operations on Monday and disbanded all police anti-narcotics units after the president’s brutal crackdown was used as a cover by rogue officers to kidnap and kill a South Korean man for money. Police Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa told police officers he would ...

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