Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the US embassy in Beijing, is staying in China after authorities promised he would be safe, US officials have said.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, who arrived in the Chinese capital on Wednesday morning, said it was crucial to make sure those pledges were kept.
The "barefoot lawyer", who made a remarkable escape from a punishing 19-month regime of extralegal house arrest last week, was reunited with his wife and children as he underwent medical checks at a Beijing hospital. Speaking via a lawyer, the 40-year-old said he had received "clear assurances".
Sarkozy fails to convince far-right vote as Le Pen urges her supporters to abstain
Parties use May Day to rally support ahead of Sunday's presidential election run-off
The deep fractures in French society revealed by the presidential
election campaign took raucous, physical form yesterday in rival May Day
demonstrations of left, right and far right.
Five days before the second round of an election that he is expected
to lose, President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a controversially named
"real work" rally at the Place Trocadéro, across the river from the
Eiffel Tower. More than 100,000 well-heeled people packed into the
square – a dangerous number for a relatively small space but an
impressive show of middle-class support for the President.Fears grow that hunger has become a weapon in Syria
Alice Fordham
May 3, 2012BEIRUT: Hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to feed their families in the parts of Syria hardest hit by violence, activists and aid workers say, with access to food cut off by ruined infrastructure, rocketing prices and, some say, security forces who steal and spoil food supplies.
Last month, the World Food Program dramatically stepped up its operations in Syria, in response to a request from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society and an assessment that showed worrying levels of hunger in the country.
Brics' sabres rattle as global currency war heats up
MATT QUIGLEY - May 02 2012 12:44
As political rhetoric heats up, fears are mounting that a global currency war may escalate -- concerns explicitly expressed by the Brics countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- in a recent communiqué.
"Excessive liquidity from aggressive policy actions taken by central banks to stabilise their domestic economies have been spilling over into emerging economies," they wrote following a summit in India, "fostering excessive volatility in capital flows and commodity prices".
Bolivia nationalises electrical grid
President Evo Morales announces final push in nationalising power sector by taking over Spanish-owned company.
Morales on Tuesday took advantage of the symbolism of May Day, the international day of the worker, to order troops to occupy installations of the company, a subsidiary of Red Electrica Corporacion SA.
The president's placing of another of what he deems basic services under state control comes as neighbouring Argentina moves to take control of the country's oil company, YPF, from the Spanish energy company Repsol SA, which had held a majority interest.
Ramon Santos, the Spanish ambassador to Bolivia, told reporters the electric grid takeover "is sending a negative message that generates distrust".
President Obama: Bin Laden raid is 'most important single day of my presidency'
By Jessica Hopper, Subrata De and Tim Uehlinger
Rock Center
President Barack Obama describes the killing of Osama bin Laden as the “most important single day” of his presidency and said that the decision to carry out the raid was one that he had to ultimately make alone.
“I did choose the risk,” the president said in an exclusive interview with Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams. “The reason I was willing to make that decision of sending in our SEALs to try to capture or kill bin Laden rather than to take some other options was ultimately because I had 100 percent faith in the Navy SEALs themselves.”
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