By Sue Pleming
Reuters 01 Dec 06 DEAD SEA, Jordan - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice strongly urged Sudan on Friday to accept a "hybrid" international force for Darfur but was told the African Union could do the job, a senior Sudanese official said.
Sudanese minister of state for foreign affairs al-Samani al-Wasiyla met Rice on the sidelines of a conference at the Dead Sea in Jordan to promote democracy and development in the Middle East. "I asked that we should work together and she said she would work together but only on the condition that we accept a hybrid (force)," Wasiyla told Reuters after the meeting. "We know as Africans what we need." |
AFP
1 Dec 06 Chinese courts have quashed efforts by a New York Times researcher and a blind activist to be freed from jail, in separate cases that triggered strong criticism of China's justice system.
Zhao Yan, 44, a Chinese assistant for the New York Times lost his appeal at Beijing's High Court against a three-year sentence on charges of fraudulently obtaining 20,000 yuan (2,500 dollars), his lawyer said. At the same time in China's eastern Shandong province, a court upheld a sentence of four years and three months for Chen Guangcheng, 35, a self-trained lawyer who exposed rights abuses committed under the nation's one-child policy. |
AFP
1 Dec 06 Four towns in western India are under curfew and over 1,500 people were arrested as authorities sought to avert more violence after riots by low-caste Hindus claimed four lives.
Rampaging low-caste Hindu mobs, angered by damage to a statue of their leader, set two passenger trains on fire Thursday after asking passengers to alight, damaged more than 100 state-run buses and clashed with police in several cities and towns of Maharashtra state. Police put the number of people injured at 60 but ambulance personnel and volunteers said more than 150 were injured in the rioting. |
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