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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28: Thailand on Monday extended a state of emergency imposed in three of its southern provinces for another three months, citing ongoing unrest there as justification for the measure. The move, approved by Thailand’s cabinet, will keep intact a state of emergency that had been in place in most districts of the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since 2005, according to the Bangkok Post. The Thai government has said that “significant progress” has been made in ongoing peace talks with an insurgency group active in the country’s restive southern region. Thousands of people have been killed in the nearly two decades-old rebellion in the Muslim majority area, in a country that is predominantly Buddhist. (KUNA)