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AFP – SINGAPORE (AFP) – US President Barack Obama used a landmark encounter with the prime minister of military-run Myanmar on Sunday to demand freedom for detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Release Suu Kyi, Obama tells Myanmar PM

Reuters – DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers have resolved disputes over work issues at a Missouri plant that prompted workers to hold a strike authorization vote, a Ford spokeswoman said on Saturday.

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Ford says resolves UAW disputes at Missouri plant

AFP – SINGAPORE (AFP) – The US and Russian presidents meet at an Asia-Pacific summit here Sunday with Barack Obama eager to secure Moscow’s backing to break the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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Obama bids for Russian help on Iran

Reuters – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Democratic U.S. Representative William Jefferson, who hid $90,000 in cash in his freezer, was sentenced on Friday to 13 years in prison for bribery, racketeering and money laundering.

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Ex-lawmaker gets 13 years in prison for bribery

Reuters – NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tenants in a vast New York City apartment complex and its owner, real estate private equity firm Tishman Speyer on Friday said they had opened talks to settle a rent clash, one day before a planned rally against the landlord.

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NY City renters, landlord Tishman Speyer seek accord

Reuters – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army on Friday ordered an investigation into burial and record-keeping mix-ups at the nation’s most venerated war cemetery.

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Army probes burial mix-ups at Arlington cemetery

Reuters – CHICAGO (Reuters) – Indiana University junior Jason Dills said he and his friends still binge drink occasionally, but he has noticed a drop-off in the campus ritual that many U.S. colleges are battling.

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University says curbing student binge drinking