North Korea-Richardson Meeting: A North Korean delegation met with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (Washington Post) in Santa Fe to demand that the United States engage in bilateral talks with the country. Richardson, who negotiated with Pyongyang in the 1990's, said he was not negotiating officially with the delegation, but was acting as "sort of a liaison."
China: Some thirteen hundred children living near a Chinese manganese factory in central Hunan province have lead contamination (Times of London). The factory, which has been shut down, had never faced any kind of environmental safety regulation since it's opening in May 2008.
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