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Myanmar peace process moving forward despite difficulties

Thesecondmeeting,heldfromMay24toMay29inNayPyiTaw,gavebirthtounionaccordsforpeaceforthefirsttimeinMyanmar'shistory.Atotalof37adoptedprinciples,basedontheNationwi

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Obama to hold final press conference on Wednesday: White House

President Barack Obama will hold his final press conference as president on Wednesday (Jan 18), the White House said.

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Paris summit warns against 'unilateral' steps in Mideast conflict

A conference for peace in the Middle East on Sunday warned Israel and the Palestinians against taking "unilateral steps" on Jerusalem and on borders that could imperil a negotiated solution to their seven-decade conflict.

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Paris conference politically significant for Palestinians despite Israeli objection

​Palestinian observers say Israel's objection to an international peace conference, expected in Paris later this month, poses a real threat to make the event a failure but could not undermine its political significance to the Palestinians.

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French Middle East peace conference to be postponed - Palestinian official

France will postpone a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, Voice of Palestine radio reported on Wednesday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refusing to participate and U.S. attendance in doubt.

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Marrakech conference needs to show global support for Paris Agreement

The ongoing United Nations climate change conference needs to reaffirm global support for the historic Paris Agreement, Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative on climate change affairs, said here Thursday.

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How will Israel's denial to French initiative affect Israeli-Palestinian peace process?

French attempts to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process have been met with a repeated Israeli refusal.

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China hosts int'l coffee science conference

The 26th international conference on coffee science opened here on Sunday in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the country's largest coffee producer.

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White paper on Puercoin released in Hong Kong

The press conference of PEB (Puercoin): White Paper on Digital Currency with Standard System & Global Exchange and Settlement System of Digital Currency was successfully held in Hong Kong on Nov. 9, 2016.

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India says it is committed to global tobacco-control treaty

India reaffirmed on Tuesday its commitment to a World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco-control treaty, despite lobbying from its $11 billion industry that opposes some measures in the treaty that will be discussed at a conference next week.

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World Economic Forum on Mekong Region first held in Vietnam

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Mekong Region was first held in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Tuesday under the theme "Making the Mekong Mighty: Investing in Fixed Capital, Human Capital, and Network Capital."

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GLOBSEC Tatra Summit to focus on energy union, finance, investment

Energy union, finance, investments, the eurozone's future, the digital agenda as well as migration and terrorism will be the main topics of the fifth GLOBSEC Tatra Summit, an international conference scheduled to take place here on October 27-30.

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All Panglong conference participants voice aspirations for peace in Myanmar

All participants in Myanmar's 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference expressed their aspirations for peace in the country at the second day session which ended Thursday evening.

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Myanmar's Panglong peace conference kicks off with call for national reconciliation

The 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference of Myanmar, which aims to unite with all ethnic nationalities and build a democratic federal union through dialogue, kicked off in Nay Pyi Taw Wednesday.

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Hillary Clinton's avoidance of press conference stirs up frustration, outcry

For U.S. media covering the 2016 presidential election, one of the vexing issues is Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's phobia about press conference.

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U.S. does not take position on competing sovereignty claims to land features in South China Sea: Kerry

​The United States does not take a position on the competing sovereignty claims to the land features of the South China Sea, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday.

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International AIDS Conference to define new path towards ending AIDS

More than 18,000 global leaders, scientists, advocates, and frontline health workers kicked off the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) in Durban on Monday to define a new path towards ending Aids.