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North Koreans escape to cold reality
Wednesday, 11.18.2009, 09:21am
They've escaped the most repressive regime in the world, but for
many North Korean refugees, life outside their closed, totalitarian
country is still not easy.
According to the South Korean
government, some 17,000 refugees have made the perilous journey from
North to South Korea, often via a tortuous route that takes in China,
Laos and Thailand.
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Hunger kills 17,000 children per day
Tuesday, 11.17.2009, 10:43am
Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all.
Ban
Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, laid out the sobering statistic as
he kicked off a three-day summit on world food security in Rome on
Monday.
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Ousted Honduran president rejects upcoming election
Sunday, 11.15.2009, 09:28am
Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya won't support the
upcoming presidential election and will ask his supporters to do the
same, Zelaya said in a letter to President Obama dated Saturday.
Zelaya's
rejection of the vote scheduled for November 29 is the latest obstacle
to a resolution to the June 28 coup that pushed him out of power. It
also puts into question the strength of a breakthrough agreement signed
between him and de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti last
month.
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Obama vows renewed ties with Asia
Saturday, 11.14.2009, 07:22am
Touting himself as America's "first Pacific president," President
Obama called on his own connections with Asia on Saturday as he pledged
a renewed engagement with Asia Pacific nations based on "an enduring
and revitalized alliance between the United States and Japan." Obama,
in his first Asia trip since taking office in January, arrived Saturday
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Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech
Friday, 11.13.2009, 07:28am
In his annual state of the nation speech Thursday, Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev painted his vision for the country's future, saying
that "modernization" was the key to its "very survival."
The
term "modernization" was repeated several times in Medvedev's
one-hour-and-40-minute-long discourse, which was held in the Kremlin's
St. George's Hall.
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China criticized over alleged black jails
Thursday, 11.12.2009, 07:18am
Chinese authorities should abolish secret jails used to unlawfully
detain citizens who travel to the capital and other major cities to
file complaints, Human Rights Watch says.
For the past six
years, citizens have been held without communication in so-called black
jails, often located in state-owned hotels, nursing homes and
psychiatric hospitals, according to a new report from the human rights
group.
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Obama considering 4 options for Afghanistan, sources say
Wednesday, 11.11.2009, 10:21am
President Obama is considering four scenarios to move forward in
Afghanistan and is expected to discuss them at his eighth meeting with
his war council on Wednesday afternoon, sources told CNN. Though the options are not being spelled out, one is fairly well-defined. That
option, a senior administration official and U.S. military official
independently confirmed, calls for sending about 34,000 U.S. troops to
Afghanistan. |
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Berlin celebrates a night that changed world
Monday, 11.09.2009, 09:47am
Thousands of people joined world leaders in the German capital
Monday to remember the night 20 years ago when a euphoric wave of
people power swept away the Berlin Wall and consigned the Cold War to
history.
In scenes calmly echoing the events of November 9,
1989, crowds thronged through the center of the once-divided city,
joining German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a symbolic re-enactment of
the first crossing of the breached Wall.
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Doctors, five others held in Mexican stolen babies case
Saturday, 11.07.2009, 10:35am
Mexican authorities have arrested three doctors, a nurse and a
receptionist accused of stealing newborns at a private hospital and
selling them, the Mexico City attorney general's office says.
A
married couple and a woman also were arrested on charges that they
bought two newborn girls and registered them as their own offspring,
said Luis Genaro Vasquez Rodriguez, an official with the attorney
general's office.
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H1N1 is now world's dominant flu virus, World Health Organization says
Friday, 11.06.2009, 09:52am
The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around
the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many
regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
In a
weekly update, the WHO's point person on the H1N1 virus, Dr. Keiji
Fukuda, also warned the public not to treat the virus like just another
flu.
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In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus.
This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is entirely new.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of today, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries.
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