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Inside Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US military campaign that dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos over 9 years
The bombings were indiscriminate. They killed about 200,000 people in Laos, which was around 10% of…
James Pasley
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Miss Laos traveled 48 hours to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in New Orleans
Miss Laos Payengxa Lor's voyage to the competition, which takes place in New Orleans this year, inc…
Anneta Konstantinides
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A fuel shortage is driving Laos which is on the brink of a debt default — to seek out cheap Russian oil
Long queues have been forming at gas stations in Laotian capital city of Vientiane as motorists scr…
Huileng Tan
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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…
Marianne Guenot
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An empty station, a burning countryside, soot raining from the sky: This is what it's like to ride Laos' gleaming new $6 billion railway in April
Slash and burn in the Laotian countryside.Marielle Descalsota/Insider
Marielle Descalsota
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I took a 24-hour bus ride from Vietnam to Laos. It was uncomfortable but only cost $45, and more memorable than flying.
The author took a 24-hour bus between Vietnam and Laos and paid $45 for a one-way ticket.Hannah She…
Hannah Shewan Stevens
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Before there were 'Night Stalkers,' these daredevil pilots got US special operators to their missions deep behind enemy lines
Air Force, Navy, and Army pilots and crews flew high-risk missions deep into enemy territory to sup…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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For the US's Vietnam-era covert special operators, the quietest missions were also the most dangerous
MACV-SOG commandos were sent behind enemy lines to gather intelligence, but the enemy himself was o…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How a daring mission behind enemy lines turned into a disaster for the US's secretive Vietnam-era special operators
The 1967 mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces spent days fightin…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Inside the Laos villages where people build homes, canoes, and tools out of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War
A boy stands in front of a house built on bombs dropped by the U.S. Air Force planes during the Vie…
Amanda Goh
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Marico is giving ₹10 for every plastic bottle that is returned at Big Bazaar outlets in Mumbai
Marico has partnered with Future Retail’s format Big Bazaar to launch a plastic recycling program ‘…
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Eight men own half of the world's wealth: Oxfam
"Over the next 20 years, 500 people will hand over USD 2.1 trillion to their heirs - a sum larger t…
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Plane Crash In Laos Kills At Least 40
The flight took off from the capital, Vientiane, and was bound for the southern part of the country…
Alex Davies
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A US ally in the Pacific says it wants to keep a new American missile system that China got all 'dramatic' about 'forever'
China has repeatedly urged the US to remove its Mid-Range Capability missile system, also known as …
Chris Panella
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I swore I would leave the US if Trump won the 2016 election. Here's how that worked out for me.
Sonya Moore is grateful to her former self for choosing to leave the US. She sometimes misses famil…
Sonya Moore
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China got 'very dramatic' after the US military flew a new missile system out to the Western Pacific, ally says
The US deployed its Mid-Range Capability missile system, capable of launching the SM-6 and Tomahawk…