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The United States is pleased with progress toward eliminating nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, but North Korea also must honor pledges to issue a complete declaration of its nuclear programs. "The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is in everyone's interest," Secretary Condoleezza Rice says in talks with Chinese leaders.
"We thought there may be a mission accomplished here, and we may have been instrumental in opening a little door," New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel says following the first performance by a U.S. orchestra in North Korea. The historic event combined Korean folk songs with some of the world?s best-known classical music.
The Bush administration condemns as a ?sham? a constitutional referendum proposed by Burma?s military rulers because the document was drafted without input from opposition parties or minorities, and the vote would be held under ?a pervasive climate of fear.? The United States calls on Burma to meet demands set by the U.N. Security Council.
With China facing its worst winter in more than five decades, the United States moved quickly to lend a warm hand, providing 6,000 winter coats, 1,657 blankets and 87,552 boxed rations for the Chinese people. The $820,000 in aid was flown from Hawaii to Shanghai, where it was unloaded and given to the People's Liberation Army.
Reporters continue to expose corruption in government and the influence of organized crime in national politics, an official from an anti-corruption agency and a journalist from Thailand say, even though more than 1,000 journalists have been murdered in the last decade, most of them in targeted killings.
Indonesian health authorities report another human death from a dangerous strain of avian influenza -- the fourth in that nation in 2007, according to case histories compiled by the World Health Organization. Indonesia?s latest deaths push its fatalities from this strain of bird flu -- H5N1-- to 61, the highest number for any of the 10 countries where humans have become infected with the virus.
The State Department will address Internet freedom when it evaluates countries around the world in the next release of its annual Human Rights Report, says Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs. Dobriansky announces the next phase for the department?s Global Internet Freedom Task Force at a State Department ceremony. She tells the assembled policymakers and representatives from the technology industry, nongovernmental organizations and academia that the Hu
Many rural parts of Lao Cai province in Vietnam now have Internet access, and 60 technology-training centers will open within two years, thanks to a U.S. Agency for International Development program that has drawn support from U.S. corporations, Vietnamese companies and governments in both countries.
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