United Nations peacekeepers are dropping thousands of leaflets from helicopters to try to entice armed pro-Indonesian militia into surrendering and disarming. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Rangoon. Soldiers in the People's Liberation Army used to spend their spare time studying quotations of Chairman Mao. As a volcano which has caused an average 150 earthquakes a day spewed a huge column of steam, smoke and ash, Japan's authorities sped up the planned evacuation of all the children from the tiny island of Miyake-jima yesterday. In the two months since the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America have a constitutional right to exclude gays, corporate and government support for the organisation has slipped markedly.
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