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• 6. ABDUCTED DEVELOPMENT WORKER'S PLEA FOR HELP
• Warren Weinstein, the elderly American kidnapped from Pakistan in 2011, has appeared in a new video asking President Obama to negotiate his release.
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• As Myanmar opens up after decades of military rule, tribes like the Chin and Maun give up customs like facial tattooing and use of tribal dialects.
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• The GOP wants to use the overhaul's bumpy trajectory as leverage in 2014 midterm elections, but can't agree on a strategy for opposing it.
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• Authorities have yet to arrest anyone months after a fire killed eight children crammed into a room where they were living as Islamic religious pupils often forced to beg.
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• The presidents of Kenya and Ethiopia will meet with South Sudan's president, hoping to mediate an increasingly deadly conflict.
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Japanese PM Abe visits Yasukuni war shrine, drawing sharp rebukes from China and South Korea
• TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects Thursday at a shrine honoring Japan's war dead in a move that drew sharp rebukes from China and South Korea, who warned that the visit celebrates his country's militaristic past and threatens to further sour already bad relations.
• The United States expressed disappointment "that Japan's leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbors."
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