Annan and Moscow urge Assad to act as rebel city falls
UN-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan and Russia
urged President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to speed up efforts to
end the bloodletting in Syria, as regime forces overran another
rebel city.
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Dissidents occupy Cuba church to press Pope on change
With a papal visit looming, dissidents occupied
a Catholic church here in a bold show of activism, demanding Pope
Benedict XVI press for political freedom in Cuba, religious and
dissident sources said Wednesday.
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Senior Chinese leader sacked in rare political scandal
Bo Xilai, the charismatic but controversial
Communist Party leader of China's Chongqing metropolis, has been
removed from his post, the state news agency Xinhua said on
Thursday.
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