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Monday's global agenda: UN leaves Syria
Your morning global affairs speed-read
The last few remaining United Nations monitors were seen pulling out of Syria Monday morning after their mandate ended Sunday night amid U.N. squabbling, Reuters reports.
Somalia has delayed its presidential vote that had been expected for Monday, the day the mandate for the U.N. mission there ended. [Associated Press]
The wife of disgraced former Chinese official Bo Xilai received a suspended death sentence Monday for the alleged murder of a British businessman, paving the way for China's Communist Party to announce its plans for dealing with Bo himself in the country's worst political scandal in decades. [Wall Street Journal]
Burma abolished direct censorship of the media on Monday, the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the former military dictatorship. [Associated Press]
In other news:
New U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell called progress in the country “fragile” in his first wide-ranging interview since becoming the first ambassador to the reclusive nation in 22 years. [Wall Street Journal]
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