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• Norwegian government leaders said they have eagerly awaited Saturday's speech at Oslo City Hall since Suu Kyi won the world's highest diplomatic honor in 1991. But Suu Kyi said she never doubted that she would travel one day to Oslo to give her honorific lecture.
• "Yes of course, I always believed that. That's why I have always said that the first time I traveled abroad I would come to Norway," she said in answer to a reporter's question. "I never doubted that. Did you?"
• Despite being under house arrest at the time, Suu Kyi did receive the actual prize in 1991 and used its cash reward to create scholarship programs for Burmese youth. Her two British-based teenage sons accepted the prize on her behalf in Oslo that year.

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• JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- Three Chinese astronauts -- including the first Chinese woman to be sent into space -- have arrived at a launch site for the country's most ambitious space mission.
• State-run China Central Television is to broadcast live the liftoff of Shenzhou 9, scheduled for Saturday evening.
• Female astronaut Liu Yang, 33, and two male crew members -- veteran astronaut Jing Haipeng and newcomer Liu Wang -- are to dock the spacecraft with a space module in a key step toward building a space station. They will work there for about a week.
• The chairman of the National People's Congress standing committee, Wu Bangguo, told the crew in a sending-off ceremony that "The country and people await your victorious return."
• Two of the astronauts will live and work inside the module to test its life-support systems while the third will remain in the capsule to deal with any unexpected emergencies.
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• TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's government on Saturday approved bringing the coun

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