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The Pentagon says it has sent three more Guantánamo captives to Albania for resettlement as refugees -- men from Algeria, Egypt and the former Soviet Union -- whom the military had concluded weren't enemy combatants.

Canada will not "sell-out" its position on human rights to cash in on trade and investment with China, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday, firmly putting his government\'s stamp on relations with the Communist powerhouse.

The Bush administration Monday defended a new law that strips enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay of recourse to traditional civilian court challenges, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown.

When the city of Korla rose from the Taklamakan desert in mid-1950s, it was marvelled as a triumph of human willpower over adverse nature. Thousands of soldiers dispatched by the Chinese communist party put this place on the map in China's far west Xinjiang, by digging 600 km of channels to coax underground water to large collective farms.