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Four people were injured after a fire broke out at the State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Sewage treatment plants are now required to notify the public of any raw sewage overflows within 24 hours, according to a law Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Sunday.
A source said ex-Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun gave U.S. officials files about organ harvesting from executed Falun Gong practitioners this year.
A state of emergency was declared in Burma’s Rakhine State (also spelled Arakan State) amid escalating sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
The United States placed a bounty on top militants in the al-Shabab, the first time a reward has been offered for members of the Somalia-based Islamist group.
The U.S. State Department’s 2011 Human Rights Report, published on May 24, 2012, addressed the issue of illicit organ harvesting in China, mentioning Falun Gong practitioners and Uighurs.
The State Department this morning briefed Congress on how it handled a Chinese police chief’s attempted defection in February.
The United States was ranked for the first time in the 10th annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report documenting human trafficking and modern slavery, released on Monday by the Department of State.
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission discusses State Dept. report with Assist. Sec of State Michael Posner
