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Blind lawyer's escape inspires Chinese dissidents

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 05:16 PM PDT


BEIJING -- The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China's embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching ...

Hotels springing up in Haiti ruins bring hope

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 05:16 PM PDT


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel rises over a metropolitan area still filled with displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands. Si ...

UN official pushes for Syrian cease-fire

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 05:24 PM PDT

BEIRUT -- The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Sunday called on President Bashar Assad and the country's opposition to stop fighting and allow a tenuous cease-fire to take hold.Maj. Gen. Robert Mood spoke after arriving in the Syrian cap ...

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