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Justice tough to find for Chinese who got HIV/AIDS through tainted blood

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 06:31 PM PST

Tian Xi is among 1 million Chinese infected by transfusions at government-run hospitals. One million more were infected donating blood. The government has yet to apologize or investigate the coverup.

It was just a small bump on the head, the result of one boy pushing another against a desk. It was such an unremarkable occurrence in a third-grade classroom that it should have been forgotten a day later, buried in the recesses of childhood memory.

Ireland bailout nearly a done deal; protesters decry painful cuts

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 12:06 AM PST

IMF, EU and Irish officials hurry to forge an 'outline agreement' before financial markets open Monday. Meanwhile, demonstrators denounce decreases in welfare, pensions and the minimum wage, tax hikes and job elimination.

Ireland is on the verge of reaching a preliminary agreement with international finance officials on a massive bailout package, a government minister said Saturday, even as thousands of angry demonstrators marched through Dublin to protest the country's latest round of painful public-spending cutbacks.

Lebanon's prime minister visits Iran

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri begins his first official visit to Iran as an international tribunal is expected to indict members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in the 2005 assassination of his father, Rafik Hariri.

Lebanon's prime minister kicked off a three-day visit to Iran on Saturday meant to strengthen economic and political bonds between the United States' chief regional adversary and a nation Washington once upheld as a model for Western-leaning Arab democracy.