Despite few concrete results from this week’s high-level U.S.-China talks in Washington, Chinese officials indicate their government firmly supports increasing dialogue with their American counterparts. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing.
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Even with the burdens of combat in Afghanistan and unrest in the Arab world, the U.S. would keep American troops in Iraq beyond the agreed 2011 final withdrawal date if Iraq's government asked for extra help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
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Security forces and plainclothes gunmen opened fire on crowds of Yemenis marching through a southern city Monday in an intensifying crackdown against the uprising.
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Crackdowns in Mexico and Colombia have pushed traffickers into Central America, where corruption is rampant, borders lack immigration control and local gangs provide an infrastructure for organized crime.
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