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(CBS News) BEIJING – In answer to a question from CBS News as to whether China and the U.S. have come to any agreement on how to end the violence in Syria, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could only reiterate Wednesday that the U.S. was “disappointed” by China’s blockage of tougher action by the United Nations Security Council. Standing in the Great Hall of the People with the Chinese Foreign Minister by her side, Clinton called the situation in Syria “a threat to peace and stability in the entire region, and the longer the conflict goes on, the greater the risk that it spills over borders and destabilizes neighboring countries.” More in After the Arab Spring China continues to oppose outside intervention in Syria, along with Russia, but insists it is not taking sides with either “party” in the civil war – President Bashar Assad’s government or the opposition. Opposition activists say the Assad regime’s brutal tactics in the lopsided war have left more than 20,000 people dead since it began more than 17 months ago. Clinton said the U.S. and China do not see “eye-to-eye” on human rights issues. U.N. largely united on Syria, to little effectRecord 100K refugees flee Syria in AugustSyria: No talks with rebels until they’re crushed “Like many countries, we support a period of political transition in Syria,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang...

American officials are still awaiting access to the three widows of Osama bin Laden, who have been in Pakistani custody since the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader. But what information could the U.S. get from them if they are, in fact, interrogated? Former CIA Operations officer Charles Faddis told “Early Show” co-anchor Erica Hill Wednesday U.S. officials aren’t likely to learn much from the women. Special Report: The killing of Osama bin Laden “I wouldn’t anticipate what we’re going to get out of these ladies. Assuming we get access, it’s going to be extremely limited,” Faddis said. “It’s about compulsion – I’m not talking physical force – but you have to have some mechanism for making a person want to talk, and all of the dynamics are contrary to that.” Hill said, “There’s no incentive whatsoever for the women to talk.” Faddis replied, “These are people who have dedicated their lives to bin Laden and to the cause. We just killed bin Laden. I would think they would think fundamentally the best way they could revere and remember him would be to give us absolutely nothing.” However, 하동출장업소 Faddis added any information the women may have is “pretty limited.” “I would not think they would operationally be involved, and I expect they were probably confined to relatively domestic routines,” he said. Hill said, “Would those domestic routines,...

(AP) HARARE, Zimbabwe – Bulawayo city officials Monday urged all residents to join the “big flush” to help Zimbabwe’s second city clear toilet waste that accumulated in sewers during days of water outages. Bulawayo city spokesperson Nesisa Mpofu asked all residents to flush their toilets simultaneously at 7:30 p.m. twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. She said a new timetable was issued Monday. She said residents can also flush at other times. Many residents had mistakenly thought they could only flush on Monday and Thursday evenings. Mpofu said synchronized flushing will help move waste in the “old and overburdened” sanitation system, worsened by a growing urban population, water shortages and a troubled economy. Civic activist groups on Monday however criticized the proposed solution by city authorities as “ridiculous.” Magondonga Mahlangu, a leader of WOZA, 오산출장업소 an activist organization that champions women’s issues and protests against the nation’s poor service, told The Associated Press that the council’s proposed “big flush” is an insult to people’s dignity. Mahlangu said city authorities needed to look at fixing the aging water and sewer pipes which have not been replaced in years. Zimbabwe had world record inflation before the formation in 2009 of a coalition government between longtime President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. “It just goes to show that someone in the council has lost touch...