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. | “I can tell you unequivocally that he was never pressured to leave. He was excited and eager about leaving,” US Ambassador Gary Locke told reporters in Beijing on Thursday.
Chen’s wish to leave China has cast doubt on an agreement between US and Chinese officials that he vacate the American embassy on Wednesday in return for assurances that he would |
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. | Western states are wary of military intervention along the lines of last year’s air campaign that helped topple Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi because of the greater diplomatic and military |
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. | REBIYA KADEER: Kadeer was once considered a success in modern China: an ethnic Uighur from the troubled far western region of Xinjiang who became a millionaire entrepreneur with a prestigious government advisory post. But she was arrested in 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for mailing newspaper reports of anti-Chinese unrest to her husband overseas and for trying to give a list of political prisoners to U.S. congressional staff. She was released in 2005, shortly |
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. | The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan only 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions.
With Russia and China joining the growing calls for a halt to the growing border conflict, the 15-member council on Wednesday backed up African Union efforts to halt violence and get peace negotiations started. |
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. | The unknown attackers used rocks, clubs, firebombs and shotguns. The protesters retaliated, beating some assailants.
Soldiers and police have now intervened to stop the clashes, but as long as six hours after the violence started. |
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. | South Azerbaijanis are fighting for their independent and recent years their fight been harshly oppressed. Western media turn blind eye on the happenings however the fight still gain strength and it is likely to witness a unique uprising in South Azerbaijan, bigger than what happed on 22nd of May 2006. |
