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...three-judge panel took less than five minutes to read the guilty verdict and announce that Khem Ngon, 58, Loch Mao, 56, and Puth Lim, 57, would spend the next 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, kidnapping and membership in the outlawed Khmer Rouge communist movement. Khmer Rouge leaders were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people during Cambodia's infamous "killing fields" period in the 1970s...
...Pope John Paul II named more saints than all his predecessors combined, beatifying more than 1,300 people and canonizing nearly 500. He fast-tracked Mother Theresa's canonization, and made a distinct effort to identify saints in Africa and Asia. In 2000, much to the chagrin of the communist government there, John Paul II canonized the first saints in China, naming 87 Chinese citizens and 33 foreign missionaries who had died in the country between 1648 and 1930. He also named the first saint from Brazil, home to more Catholics than any other country. Many within the Catholic church...
...true to form, China has so far kept its cards close to its chest. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has pledged that his country would "join hands" with other nations in solving the crisis. But the ruling Communist Party held its Third Plenum in Beijing over the weekend. The meeting is usually an occasion for major policy decisions, but there was no word of what the top cadres' attitude to their country's role in the ongoing crisis might...
...satirical political cartoonist in Soviet Russia, Boris Yefimov drew for the Communist Party's daily Izvestia, among other publications. Some of his more memorable works include depictions of a weakened Germany during World War II. One such drawing, published in 1941, showed a group of frozen German soldiers carrying a coffin labeled "The myth of the invincible German army." Yefimov later turned his eye toward the U.S., creating a cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower laying claim to the North Pole, a drawing commissioned by Joseph Stalin. Yefimov...
...bilateral talks with a sincere desire to reach a solution, in an appearance at the Kennedy School yesterday. Tibetan and Chinese officials are preparing to enter the eighth round of negotiations on the status of Tibetan political authority at the end of this month. But, with restrained responsiveness from Communist Party representatives, Gyari expressed concern over whether the ongoing discussions would lead to an equitable solution. “In the absence of serious and sincere commitment on [the Chinese] part, the continuation of the present dialogue process would serve no purpose,” he said. Gyari has served...