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Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 0600 GMT, April 26

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The police force in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) announced on Wednesday the creation of a new anti-terror unit targeting potential lone-wolf attackers.

The task force aims to track down individuals at risk of radicalization or becoming extremists, who may not have been previously monitored. (Australia-New Force-Lone Wolf Attacker)

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DHAKA -- A team of Bangladeshi police raided a house in the country's Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday morning when at least four militants with huge explosives opened fire at the law enforcers.

The militants also hurled crude bombs at the policemen.(Bangladish-Militants-Fire)

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TOKYO -- Japan's disaster reconstruction minister Masahiro Imamura resigned Wednesday after remarking that it was a "good thing" that the earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011 struck Japan's northeast rather that the Tokyo metropolitan area.

"I severely troubled and hurt people in northeastern Japan," Imamura told a press briefing at the prime minister's office following submitting his letter of resignation.(Japan-Minister-Resignation)

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SEOUL -- South Korea's defense ministry on Wednesday confirmed local media reports that part of the elements of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system were deployed to a site in southeast South Korea.

The ministry said in a statement that South Korea and the United States have made efforts to rapidly secure an operational capability of the THAAD system in preparation for what it called the nuclear and missile threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).(S.Korea-THAAD-Deployment)

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YANGON -- The three-day political dialogue at national level has ended in Taunggyi, Myanmar's southern Shan state, and the outcome of the region-wise dialogue will be submitted to the upcoming Second Meeting of the country's 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference, scheduled for May 24, official report said Wednesday.

A total of 57 papers, submitted by representatives of signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) and political parties, were discussed at the three-day dialogue meeting which concluded on Tuesday and various points of view were compiled for further presentation to the Panglong peace conference. (Myanmar-Peace Process) Enditem