VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) – The Latest on President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Laos (all times local):
10:55 a.m.
President Barack Obama says Laotians have been living under the “shadow of war” for four decades.
Obama is touring a rehabilitation center in Laos that treats victims of bombs the U.S. dropped during the Vietnam War. Obama says the U.S. dropped some 270 million cluster bombs, including 80 million that never exploded and remain a threat.
He says the war wasn’t contained to the battlefield because the bombs have killed farmers and of children who thought they could be toys.