Fighting rages on Thai-Cambodian border despite Trump's ceasefire claim
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... Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a new ceasefire.

Thai officials said they did not agree to a ceasefire. Cambodia has not commented directly on Trump's claim, but its defense ministry said Thai jets carried out airstrikes Saturday morning.

Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said Saturday that some of Trump's remarks didn't "reflect an accurate understanding of the situation."

He said Trump's characterization of a land mine explosion that wounded Thai soldiers as a "roadside accident" was inaccurate, and did not reflect Thailand's position that it was a deliberate act of aggression.

Sihasak said that Trump's willingness to credit what may be "information from sources that deliberately distorted the facts" instead of believing Thailand hurt the feelings of the Thai people "because we consider ourselves -- we are proud, in fact -- to be the oldest treaty ally of the United States in the region." ...