
HIV infection among young worsens

The HIV infection rate among Thai youngsters has become even worse this year, the Public Health Ministry said Friday ahead of World Aids Day on December 1.
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Peace talks with separatists stalled

Insurgents have shot down the government's offer to hold peace talks to end the violence in the southernmost provinces, Defence Minister Gen Boonrawd Somtas said Friday.
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Martial law to be lifted partially in December : Sonthi

The timetable to lift martial law has been set for December in areas deemed to have attained stability and normalcy, authorities said Friday.
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A Chula staff sentenced to 12 years for killing a man in a fight

The Criminal Court sentenced to 12 years Friday an employee of Chulalongkorn University who was found guilty of killing a man after he urinated in front of his house last year.
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Worst bombing in Baghdad since war kills 152

BAGHDAD, Nov 23, 2006 (AFP) - In the worst attack on Baghdad since the war to oust Saddam Hussein, insurgents killed 152 people on Thursday and wounded 236 in a series of car bombings in the Shiite district of Sadr City, security and medical sources said.
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Concerns over separatists' strategies

Pattani - A growing concern has emerged among the state agencies over the use of Islamic connotations by the Malay-Muslim separatists in the deep south in their attempt to discredit the government agencies and to call for support for the insurgency, said senior intelligence officers.
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Former Russian spy Litvinenko dead: hospital

London - Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died Thursday, doctors said, three weeks after being mysteriously poisoned in what critics alleged was a Soviet-style sting by Moscow's secret services, a charge denied by the Kremlin.
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Narathiwat school destroyed by fire

A fire razed to the ground a school in Narathiwat's Ra Ngae district early Friday morning
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NEW PEACE INITIATIVE

South zoned for development

Plan backed at special Cabinet meeting, tax incentives offered; hundreds protest in Yala over killing of Muslim teenager
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