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US shutdown halts Barack Obama's Malaysia trip
Source: BBC News
President Barack Obama has called off his trip to Malaysia to tackle the US government shutdown, the office of Malaysia's PM Najib Razak has said.
Secretary of State John Kerry will represent him next week instead, the office said.
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Mr Najib's office said Mr Obama had called the prime minister on Wednesday to inform him that Mr Kerry would address an entrepreneurship conference in Kuala Lumpur on 11 October in his place.
Mr Obama's visit would have been the first by a US president to Malaysia since Lyndon B Johnson in 1966.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24362141
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