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Review Myanmar’s ASEAN membership: Malaysia minister

  Kuala Lumpur/ AFP Myanmar’s membership of ASEAN must be reviewed because of its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, a senior Malaysian minister warned on Wednesday. Khairy Jamaluddin said the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ principle of non-interference in member states’ domestic affairs was void in the context of such violence. Myanmar’s army has carried out a bloody ...

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Former Mali coup leader Sanogo on trial for murder

  Sikasso / AFP Amadou Sanogo, a former army captain who staged a military coup in Mali in 2012, went on trial Wednesday charged with the murder of several soldiers whose bodies were found in a mass grave. “I’m in fine spirits. I was waiting for this day,” Sanogo said at the opening of the trial, held in a packed concert ...

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Trump may select Mitt Romney as chief diplomat

  New York / AFP Donald Trump dined Tuesday at one of New York’s swankiest restaurants with Mitt Romney, his erstwhile foe turned potential frontrunner in the race to become America’s next secretary of state. The dinner came as the president-elect got a shot in the arm by a manufacturing company announcing a deal to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in ...

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