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Syria signals its acceptance of U.N.-backed six-step proposal to end violence
United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has agreed to his six-point plan that he hopes will bring about an end to the year-long violence in the country. It's already claimed more than 8,000 lives, according to U.N. estimates.
VIDEO: Amnesty International report finds increase in executions in 2011
Amnesty International issued the 50th edition of its annual death penalty report this week, after finding that overall executions increased from 2010, despite a decline in the number of countries conducting executions. It also found that fewer death sentences were handed down than in the previous year.
China issues new regulation requiring lawyers to swear allegiance to Communist Party
China's lawyers are hardly independent today, but a new regulation from the country's Ministry of Justice would require all attorneys to swear allegiance to the Communist Party before being granted a license to practice law.
This American Life retracts one of its most popular episodes: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
An investigation by Rob Schmitz at Marketplace concluded that the claims Mike Daisey made in an episode of This American Life could not be true. This American Life made the decision to retract the program after confronting Daisey, who admitted to making up parts of his program.
An estimated two-thirds of organ transplants in China come from executed prisoners
Officials in China's Ministry of Health admit they harvest organs from death row inmates for the majority of transplants in the country. It is estimated that two-thirds of the country's total organ transplants come from executed prisoners.
Retracted: Apple fans questioning manufacturing already taking important step, critic says
This article was edited to reflect new information about Mike Daisey, the critic who star in The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
Chinese diplomats headed to Syria as violence persists
China's flexing its diplomatic muscle, softly, as it tries to end the violence in Syria. A Chinese envoy was headed to Syria bringing a demand that both sides end the violence and negotiate a peaceful end to the violence that has killed 7,000 people.
In Korea, trees planted in Mongolia bring hopes for fewer dust storms
South Korea a few times a year will be wracked with terrible dust storms carried on the jet stream from Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The yellow, talc-like sand is born up by winds and then carried for miles until it causes asthma attacks in Seoul. But Koreans are hoping newly planted trees will help put an end to that.
Reports: North Korea agrees to suspend some nuclear activities in exchange for food aid
Relationships between North Korea and the United States may have thawed dramatically on Wednesday with the U.S. State Department and North Korea's state-run media announcing a suspension of nuclear enrichment in exchange for U.S. food aid.
Anniversary: Recalling Nixon's trip to China, 40 years later
Today marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. In February 1972, in the final years of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon flew to China to meet with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. The meeting has been memorialized as the triumph of Nixon's career.
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