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The United States welcomes Serbia's announcement of a pullback from the Kosovo border following warnings from Washington, although it says it could not verify troop movements. "We will be looking for further confirmation. But if true, that would be a welcome step," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
At the Cilvegozu border crossing between Syria and Turkey, queues of Syrians fleeing the earthquake area pile up behind the checkpoint more than 10 days after the disaster. The February 6 earthquake claimed the lives of more than 38,000 people in southeastern Turkey and nearly 3,700 in neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says from Damascus that President Bashar al-Assad has voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in rebel-held northwestern Syria. SOUNDBITE
Turkey is more determined than ever to secure its border with Syria and prevent attacks by Kurdish forces, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who claims his country's "operations with plans, cannons and drones are only the beginning." SOUNDBITE
Rockets fired on Monday from Syria towards the Turkish border town of Karkamis kill two people and wound six, according to a regional governor. The Anadolu official press agency reports that the strikes hit a high school and two houses as well as a truck near the border crossing that links Karkamis to the Syrian town of Jarablus. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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