北约首领称单靠军事手段不能解决利比亚冲突
The head of the NATO military alliance Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he is optimistic that time is
running out for
the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. Mr Fogh Rasmussen said that Colonel Gaddafi had been stopped in his tracks, but he said the conflict in Libya required a political, rather than a military solution.
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古巴政府一反政府派被捕几日后死亡
Dissidents in Cuba say a government opponent has died several days after he was arrested and allegedly beaten by police. There has been no word from the Cuban authorities. Michael Voss reports from Havana.
46-year-old Juan Wilfredo Soto was detained by the police last Thursday during a protest in the central city of Santa Clara. According to fellow dissident Guillermo Farinas, Mr Soto was beaten after yelling anti-government slogans and later hospitalized. He died early Sunday morning. Juan Soto, a former political prisoner, is believed to have had a number of
preexisting
health issues, including diabetes, heart problems and gout. But the head of the illegal though tolerated Cuban Human Rights Commission Elizardo Sanchez suspects that Mr Soto’s death was linked to his detention.
墨西哥15万人游行 敦促政府检讨安全策略
Thousands of Mexicans have joined the final stages of a silent march in protest of the killing of tens of thousands of people in drug-related violence and the government’s response to it. The four-day march is reaching its climax in the main square of Mexico City.