Paramilitary policemen keep buy Thursday throughout the Lantern Festival around the final day of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing. For his position in galvanizing protests by means of a Facebook group, which earned him 12 days in police detention, Google executive Wael Ghonim became a hero of your Egyptian revolution. In China, individuals like Ghonim who problem the state remain locked up for lengthy terms, say human rights activists and analysts, who say Beijing's intolerance of dissent and massive state ...

Clinton to Press China on Rare Earth U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she will press China this week to clarify its policy on the exports of rare-earth minerals amid fears Beijing could use them as a political weapon. Mrs. Clinton, en route to Asia for a key regional summit, stressed following a meeting with her Japanese counterpart in Hawaii that recent Chinese restrictions on sales of the important commercial inputs must serve as a "wake-up call" for the U.S. and ...

It is midday and girls are flooding out of school, but Nujood Ali is not among them. We find her at the family's two-room house in an impoverished suburb of the city where Nujood is angry, combative and yelling. Tension surrounds the home like a noose. After much arguing with family members, Nujood finally grabs her veil and agrees to sit down with CNN. Her presence is grudging, although CNN had got permission in advance to see how the girl ...

On paper, perhaps, Congressman Joe Sestak seems to be on a quixotic mission — to unseat Arlen Specter, a 30-year incumbent Senator who is arguably the most successful politician in Pennsylvania history. And he's got to do it all in nine months with less money than Specter, little name recognition outside his district in the Philadelphia suburbs and the near unanimous disapproval of the state's powerful Democratic establishment. Is he crazy Surprisingly, many of the state's veteran political observers and ...

The question may have been lost in translation, but a visibly angry Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly told a town-hall meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, "I will you tell you my opinion, I'm not going to channel my husband." The unscripted moment happened as Clinton spoke to students at a Congolese university in Kinshasa, the Congo capital. A male student rose to ask a question about Chinese financial contracts with Congo. The student asked Clinton ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that she will travel to the epicenter of Africa's longest war Tuesday to try to help victims of more than a decade of regional conflict. Clinton will fly on a United Nations plane to Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo because the U.S. plane for her seven-nation Africa trip is too big, she said. The Congo conflict has involved several countries and resulted in an estimated 5 million deaths from fighting and ...

What can 40 goats and 20 cows buy a Kenyan man? Chelsea Clinton's love, if you ask Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor. The Kenyan man first offered the dowry nine years ago to then-President Bill Clinton in asking for the hand of his only child. He renewed it Thursday after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about the proposal at a Nairobi town hall session. CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the session's moderator, commented that given the economic crisis at hand, Chepkurgor's dowry ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a "tough but lovingly presented" message to Kenya on Thursday: shun corruption and reform government. African governments should uphold the rule of law to attract investment and ensure economic growth, Clinton said during a town hall meeting at the University of Nairobi. "The fact is Kenya has not fulfilled its economic promise," Clinton said. "I believe it has not realized ... a functioning democracy." Clinton, who arrived at the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday, ...

It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with their families. Then, after an appropriate amount of time for hugs and kisses, Bill Clinton appeared, descending from his movie-producer friend's plane like an angel from heaven. An emotional Ling practically referred to the former president as a messiah, describing to the media and well-wishers waiting at the airport how she and Lee thought they were being sent to a hard-labor camp, ...

Two people were killed and four wounded in a suspected U.S. drone attack in northwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence and Taliban sources said. "They are en route to Los Angeles, where Laura and Euna will be reunited with their families," spokesman Matt McKenna said in a written statement. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed relief at the release of the two journalists. "Obviously I am very happy and relieved to have these two young women, Laura Ling and ...