Myanmar President Urges Progress on Rebel Cease-fire

Myanmar President Thein Sein has met with ethnic rebel negotiators, urging them to sign a nationwide cease-fire deal before the country's November general election. Wednesday's meeting in the administrative capital, Naypyidaw, is the first public appearance by the president since the official start of campaigning for the November 8 polls. The ex-army general met with representatives of five of the more than a dozen rebel groups that have been participating in the negotiations...

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