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  • China refused to allow Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo out of prison to collect his award Friday. But the prize's prominence will continue to burnish Liu's international image as a human-rights reformer.
  • The four-day air assault will soon achieve the objectives of establishing a no-fly zone and averting a massacre of civilians by Moammar Gadhafi's troops, he said. But U.S. planes will not be maintaining the no-fly-zone.
  • It remains to be seen whether Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, will be an innovator, or merely a puppet of his immediate predecessor, Vladimir Putin. On issues of security and diplomacy, he has stuck with Putin's line.
  • Bodies were moved into a mass grave and piled throughout Port-au-Prince as rescue and relief teams struggled with the huge scale of death and injury in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake. Aid convoys were warned to add security to protect against looting.
  • American forces are evacuating thousands of U.S. citizens from war-torn Lebanon. But smaller evacuations take place quite often and receive barely a mention in the media — the evacuation of families and non-essential personnel from U.S. embassies in countries that have become dangerous.
  • Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to "forge a lasting partnership" with the U.S. But he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issues there won't be "a meeting of the minds anytime soon."
  • President Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, the president announced Wednesday.
  • Poznan, Poland, is hosting the current round of talks to tackle one of the most difficult issues of our day: global warming. The goal is to craft a treaty that will turn the world away from fossil fuels in the coming decades. But the global economic meltdown could put a damper on the already difficult talks.
  • The largest earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years rocked the Caribbean nation Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and heavily damaging other buildings. U.S. officials reported bodies lying in the streets and an aid official described "total disaster and chaos."
  • The visit of Chinese Vice President and heir apparent Xi Jingping to the United States, raised questions about internal Chinese politics — from human rights to technological development — and how the country will be governed in the future.
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