Tiananmen mothers urge open debate
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Families of victims of China's 1989  Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests have urged  the government to allow open debate on the subject at next  week's annual meeting of parliament and "reveal the truth."
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's leader used his National Day speech Sunday to urge China to begin peace talks so the two rivals can avoid war. Chinese and Taiwanese leaders haven't met since the Communists took over China in 1949 and Taiwan began resisting the mainland's rule...
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A group of foreign academics, lawyers, and activists sent an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao today.
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Families of victims of the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have urged the Chinese government to publish a true account, apologize and pay compensation to bereaved relatives and survivors.
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A 67-year-old Romanian woman became the world's oldest mother yesterday, provoking an ethical, medical and religious debate about fertility treatment for older women.
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The mothers of two soldiers killed in Iraq ask judges to order the setting up of an independent inquiry into the war.
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By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub  Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wakeup call with one sentence.
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The Chinese government's claims of support for legal reform and human rights, and an influx of information about Western legal concepts, have fueled public demands for a more independent judiciary.
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Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent.
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The mother of a murdered boy renews her call for information on sex offenders living in the community.
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Legislative candidates made their final appeals to voters Saturday in a fiercely contested political showdown that could give pro-democracy opposition figures the most clout they&#39;ve had since Hong Kong was returned to China.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell urged  China on Monday to exert its influence over North Korea to  resume stalled talks on scrapping its nuclear weapons programs  and pressed Beijing to accept a Taiwan offer of talks.
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Brief monologues from a broad range of men and women on different perspectives and experiences related to motherhood are being sought by the committee planning next March's "Women's Week" celebration at the University of Utah.
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China's security chief tells officials to pay more attention to people's grievances, in the wake of increasing protests.
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Major reform of the way sudden infant deaths are investigated has been demanded in efforts to prevent parents being wrongly accused of killing their own babies.
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Visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday pressed for dialogue between Bangladesh's army-backed government and political parties to ensure a "transition to genuine democracy."
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China's ruling party opens its annual plenary session Thursday, with the communist elite battling to bolster its waning image amid an apparent power struggle between President Hu Jintao and military leader Jiang Zemin.