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While investigators concluded that the government workers did not engage in “baby trading,” they did find “severe violations” of regulations, according to the newspaper’s Web site, People’s Daily Online. As a result, eight babies or toddlers were illegally adopted from the city of Shaoyang between 2002 and 2005, the article said. In a scandal that [...]

But people across the country cheered recently when officials in eastern China said they were doing away with a 600-year-old local custom: the slaughter of thousands of dogs to be eaten at an autumn festival. The Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival, as it is called, was abruptly canceled last week after local officials were shamed [...]

LONDON, Sep 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) – The global economy is headed toward collapse, revolutions are breaking out across the Middle East, famine is ravaging Africa and the world is approaching a peak oil crisis. No, these are not headlines ripped from the news; these are the challenges facing Windows and Mac gamers in Fate [...]

By passing the measure, Germany promised to increase its share of the guarantees to 211 billion euros, or $285 billion, from 123 billion euros, as agreed by national leaders in Brussels back in July. Under the euro zone’s tortuous procedures, however, all 17 members must approve the agreement. Without that, the bailout fund cannot be [...]

Although the protests have been peaceful so far, behind the anger a more fundamental issue is smoldering: Serbs here are being forced to finally contemplate a future under the Kosovar government in Pristina, which is dominated by ethnic Albanians. “It’s the very first time in 12 years that the pressure against the Serbs in the [...]

The elections were for local advisory councils with no lawmaking authority or ability to alter the status quo in one of the world’s few remaining absolute monarchies. Also barred from voting were men employed by the police and security forces as well as all men under the age of 21. Official figures estimate the number [...]

More than a dozen doctors who worked at a central hospital in the capital, Manama, received 15-year sentences, the news agency said. Other medical personnel at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, Bahrain’s largest public hospital, were given terms of up to 10 years. The sentences were the latest sign that the country’s Sunni monarchy would continue [...]

On Thursday, Interpol also widened its net for members of his family. The government official said Colonel Qaddafi’s son and heir apparent, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, was likely to be hiding in the loyalist desert enclave of Bani Walid, and that a second son, Muatassim el-Qaddafi, a militia commander and former national security adviser, was probably [...]

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, and the writer, Tristane Banon, were questioned together in a French police station for more than two hours as investigators sought to compare their differing versions of events and extract further information on the case. The joint questioning, a normal part of sexual assault cases [...]

The comments by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were the first to directly link the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, with an assault on the United States, and they ignited a diplomatic furor with Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders, who have denied the accusation. Asked [...]