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...Rights Watch. Gao says he is now living on Wutai Mountain, the site of several dozen monasteries in China's central Shanxi province. But little more is known about whether he remains under some sort of detention or house arrest. "I talked to him on the phone for about two or three minutes," says Li Fangping, a lawyer in Beijing. "He wanted to hang up when we only talked for one or two minutes. He said his 'friends' were looking for him. He had to go. When asked about how he was and whether he was free, he said...
...according to a statement released by Freedom Now, a Washington-based NGO that advocates for political prisoners. "I am so happy that my children were able to speak to him." Geng said that she hoped her husband would be allowed to go to the U.S., where she and her two children were granted political asylum...
...edges of the Afghan insurgency. His Hezb-i-Islami militia - said to number between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters, and which operates independently of the Taliban - has carried out scores of ambushes on coalition forces in the northeastern mountains of Afghanistan and has claimed credit for two attempts on the life of President Hamid Karzai...
...Washington dutifully obliged. At the end of two days of high-level talks with top Obama Administration officials, the Pakistani delegation came away with a promise that the U.S. would hasten delivery of F-16 fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships and unmanned reconnaissance drone aircraft. But U.S. officials stopped short of agreeing to a key Pakistani demand: that the U.S. recognize Pakistan as a nuclear power, giving it parity with its rival India, which secured a similar accord from the Bush Administration. Washington officials were reluctant to comply because of Pakistan's having secretly sold nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran...
...special friend President Bill Clinton when he pressed the White House to commit ground troops to Kosovo in 1999. In 2003 the U.K. agreed to extradition terms that made it easier to extradite a Briton to stand trial in America than a U.S. citizen to face the British courts. Two years ago, evidence surfaced contradicting U.S. denials that a U.S. air base on the British dependency of Diego Garcia had been used for extraordinary renditions of terrorism suspects in 2002. "We share the disappointment that everybody has about what's actually happened," said Brown, who succeeded Blair in 2007, after...