Reuters World News Highlights

BANGKOK – Thai and Cambodian soldiers fought with rockets,  guns and tanks yesterday in a third day of clashes over disputed  territory surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple, the area’s  worst fighting in years.
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JUBA, Sudan – A mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave  the south ahead of its expected independence has spread through  towns in an oil-producing state, with at least 50 people killed  in the past four days, officials said.
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TEHRAN – Two Americans held in Iran for the last 18 months  on suspicion of espionage pleaded not guilty in court on Sunday  on the first day of their closed-door trial, state television  reported.
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MUNICH – The president of Afghanistan said yesterday he  would announce the start of a process to transfer responsibility  for security to Afghan forces from international forces on March  21.
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MOSCOW – A manhunt is under way for two residents of  Russia’s Muslim Ingushetia region who law enforcement officers  believe coordinated the bombing of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport  two weeks ago, Interfax reported yesterday.
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TUNIS – Tunisia’s interior minister has suspended all  activities of the former ruling party to prevent a breakdown in  security, an Interior Ministry source said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD – Hundreds of Iraqis took part in scattered  demonstrations yesterday, calling for an improvement in basic  services and the resignation of local government officials as  unrest sweeps much of the Arab world.
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DHAKA – Angry investors took to the streets of the  Bangladeshi capital yesterday after the stock exchange suffered  another dramatic fall, the latest of a series of collapses that  forced halts in trading several times last month.
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SEOUL – North and South Korean military officers will meet  this week at a truce village on their heavily fortified border  in a test of a pledge by the North to ease tension after a major  security crisis last year.