Cambodia seeks more talks with Thais after clash

Cambodia's prime minister called Friday for more talks with Thailand after a deadly armed clash raised fears the two neighbors were headed for a full-scale war over a patch of disputed land along their border.

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Washington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles

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North and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles

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BEIJING: China on Thursday rejected suggestions that incursions by its troops into the Indian territory were on the rise, and cautioned India that any move to increase troop presence along the disputed border in Arunachal Pradesh "would only lead to a rivalry between the two co …

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Thailand and Cambodia showed no signs Tuesday of resolving their long-simmering spat over a disputed border area near an ancient temple, with Bangkok insisting its troops would remain in place.

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The hostilities between Russia and Georgia that erupted on Friday over the breakaway province of South Ossetia look, in retrospect, almost absurdly over-determined.

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British scientists say they have drawn up the first detailed map to show areas in the Arctic that could become embroiled in future border disputes.

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SANTO DOMINGO, March 7 (Reuters) - The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face of hostile rhetoric and troop buildups.

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An eight-ton rock rested for generations at the bottom of the Ohio River, minding its own business as time and currents passed. It favored neither Ohio to the north nor Kentucky to the south. It just — was.

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Desperate for water amid a historic drought, some Georgia lawmakers are trying to reopen an 1818 border dispute with Tennessee.

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Breaking new grounds, India and China on Monday decided to promote bilateral cooperation in civil nuclear energy and expedite resolution of the festering boundary issue.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will confine his first visit to China to Beijing only. It is reported that he has also kept all landmarks of the city such as the Great Wall and Forbidden City off his itinerary.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit to China, with each country eager to increase trade, promote mutual friendship and offer reassurances that Asia is big enough to accommodate the ambitions of both rising powers.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought to curb the appetite of the media for 'results' by describing his maiden visit to China as merely a "return visit" following upon those of premier Wen Jiabao in 2005 and President Hu Jintao in November '06.

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Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to China, India has said that the Chinese army "sometimes" does intrude on its territory but the issues are addressed through established mechanisms.

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India and China are old civilisations but new neighbours. It was the 1951 Chinese annexation of the historical buffer, Tibet, that brought Chinese troops to what is now the Sino-Indian frontier. Just 11 years later, China invaded India.

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