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Rice presses China on human-rights issues
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BEIJING: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday pressed
China’s leaders on sensitive human rights issues, but said she was
encouraged by their decision to hold talks with the Dalai Lama’s
envoys.
In meetings with President Hu Jintao and Premier
Wen Jiabao in Beijing, Rice said she raised the cases of several
dissidents detained by China as well as the ruling Communist
Party’s controls on the Internet.
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Mugabe begins new term as criticism
of one-man election mounts
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HARARE: Zimbabwe’s opposition urged the African Union (AU) to take
the lead in mediating an end to the country’s crisis as Robert
Mugabe, fresh from declaring himself president, faced his fellow
heads of state Monday.
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Firemen battle to save California’s Big Sur
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LOS ANGELES: Exhausted firefighters in California Monday struggled
to contain a spate of raging wildfires that have been burning for
more than a week and now threaten the tourist attraction of Big Sur.
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Nader jabs at Obama’s ‘corporate’ opinions
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WASHINGTON: Third-party US presidential candidate Ralph Nader on
Sunday accused Democratic contender Barack Obama of touting
“corporate” interests that benefit the wealthy to the detriment
of ordinary Americans.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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TOKYO: Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers will agree to establish a task force at their summit next month to tackle the world food crisis, a report said Monday.
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