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UNITED NATIONS: Bangladesh told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims started pouring across the border fleeing a military crackdown.Attacks on security posts by Rohingya insurgents in Myanmar’s Rakhine state triggered the crackdown that the United…

MANILA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday vowed to defend the Philippines against “armed attack” in the disputed South China Sea in Washington’s starkest warning yet against Chinese claims to most of the strategic waterway.Speaking in Manila after meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Pompeo said Beijing’s building of artificial islands in waters…