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Myanmar gov't battles rebels near Chinese border

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Government troops in Myanmar have attacked one of the country's powerful northern militias with artillery in a bid to force rebel fighters from a strategic region where China is constructing major hydropower plants.

 

The fighting has killed at least four people and forced 2,000 more to flee since it started Thursday, according to the US Campaign for Burma. (AP)

 

 

 

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