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OTTAWA 鈥?Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed three fellow Nobel laureates who tried in a private meeting four years ago to persuade her to speak up for Myanmar persecuted Muslim minority,
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MIRROR, ALTA.鈥擮n a sunny afternoon outside the Whistle Stop Caf茅, Chris Scott stood in arm-crossed defiance.The restaurant hes owned for almost two years is the size of a two-car garage and sits just off a barren stretch of highway near the Alberta hamlet of Mirror. This week
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