COVER UP?: A letter believed to be from Chinese police to Yahoo has cast doubt on the US company's defense of its involvement in the investigation into a journalist
US Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Yahoo officials misrepresented the US Internet company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist sentenced to a decade in jail.

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DEFENSE TEAM: Members of the anti-corruption campaign aimed at the president said they would gather a group of lawyers larger than the Kaohsiung Incident defense team
By Mo Yan-chih and Flora Wang
The anti-corruption campaign aimed at President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday protested the indictment of its leader Shih Ming-teh (施明德), vowing to gather a team of lawyers to defend Shih in court.

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`FEELING OF HOPE': The negotiations with a UN mediator bring together 16 military commanders to pave the way for a deal with the Khartoum regime
Darfur's fractious rebel groups started key talks on Friday to hammer out a united front paving the way for negotiations with the Khartoum government and an end to the deadly civil conflict.

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A military jury has found a soldier guilty of rape and murder in the slayings of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family.

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China has blacklisted more than 400 exporters for violating trade rules following a series of food, drug and other health scares across the world, the Commerce Ministry said yesterday.

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