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Cambodia and Thailand agree to ASEAN observers to ensure ceasefire holds
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Thailand's top defence officials agreed on Thursday to allow observers from the ASEAN regional bloc to inspect disputed border areas and help ensure hostilities do not resume following a violent five-day conflict that ended in a ceasefire late in July. The Southeast Asian neighbours saw the in over a decade last month, including exchanges of artillery fire and jet fighter bombing runs that claimed at least 43 lives and displaced more than 300,000 people on both sides of the border. Fighting continued despite diplomatic interventions from China and Malaysia, chair of the regional bloc ASEAN, both calling for restraint. The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand only came to the negotiating table when U.S. President Donald Trump told them that tariff negotiations would not continue unless there was peace, Reuters exclusively reported. Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Seiha and Thailand's acting defence minister Nattaphon Narkphanit met at Malaysia's Armed Forces headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday to thrash out the terms of a permanent cessation of hostilities. "There will be an observation team of ASEAN military attaches based in Thailand and Cambodia, led by Malaysia," Nattaphon told reporters at a press conference after the meeting, adding that foreign inspectors based in either country would not cross the border. "Thailand and Cambodia are neighbours with a shared border that can move away from each other ... a resolution will allow our people to return to peaceful lives," he said. Thailand and Cambodia said in a joint statement that they would hold more talks in two weeks and then again in a month. The peace conditions were formulated during three days of talks between senior officials in Kuala Lumpur and were finalised on the fourth day in the presence of observers from China and the United States. "Both sides agreed on the terms of implementation of the ceasefire and improving communication between the two armies," Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on social media. Thailand and Cambodia have quarrelled for decades over undemarcated parts of their 817 km (508 miles) land border, which was first mapped by France in 1907 when the latter was its colony.
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Russian stock index up 4.5% after Putin-Trump meeting announced
MOSCOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Russia's stock market index rose 4.5% after Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov announced a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in coming days.
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Woman raped by brother as a child urges others to report abuse
A woman who was raped by her brother as a child has urged other victims of sexual assault to come forward. Charlotte McQueen, 28, has waived her right to anonymity after her brother Andrew McQueen, 30, of Thomas Street, Cirencester, was jailed for five years at Gloucester Crown Court. She reported the abuse to police in February after receiving a text from her brother asking for her forgiveness, leading to him pleading guilty to nine non-recent sexual offences. "Andrew, my big brother, was supposed to protect me," Ms McQueen told the court. "Instead I spent four years of my childhood living in fear of sexual and physical violence from him." McQueen will spend at least two years and eight months in prison after being sentenced on 13 June, for offences he carried out between the ages of 11 and 15. Ms McQueen was just nine when the sexual assaults began."Andrew took my innocence, my mental health and my happiness," she said in court. "He has stolen my childhood. I struggle to remember the happy times because they are tainted by the misery and the pain that he caused me." After McQueen sent the text to his sister, the conversation escalated, Gloucester Crown Court heard, and he began sending threatening messages aimed at her and her children. She said: "His threats against my family made me realise that I could not allow him to use this against me any more and I could not allow him to threaten or intimidate my children."McQueen admitted the attacks after he was arrested, claiming he had been drunk when he sent the texts and had issues with his own mental health. With her brother now in prison, Ms McQueen said that her decision to come forward was allowing her to rebuild her life. "I allowed him to have control over my life until now – that was 19 years of my life," she other victims to speak up, she said: "Nobody questioned whether I was telling the truth or not. "It will be hard and, mentally, it will be challenging, but the support that you will receive makes it manageable."Now I can get back to living my life; I can access support without this big secret hanging over me."
