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Niki Singh

10/19/13

Suicide Blasts near Iran Embassy kill 23

P:

- Beirut

- A mainly Shiite district in the Lebanese capital

- Tuesday

- 23 Dead

- Hezbollah (Lebanese group in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.)

I:

* 2 Suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy.

* The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying proxy battle over Syria’s civil war is rattling its smaller neighbor Lebanon.

* The bombing was one of the deadliest in a string of attacks that have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in recent months.

* Iran’s former minister blamed Israel for the attacks.

* Hezbollah and Syrian officials indirectly blamed Saudi Arabia.

E:

* More attacks may follow unless the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah withdraws fighters that have helped Assad’s military score key victories Syrian rebels.

* Many citizens may be in danger because of the intensifying discrepancies in the Middle East.

China to ease one-child policy, abolish labor camps, report says

P:

* China’s government

* The United Nations

* Citizens of China

I:

* China announced it would relax its decades-long one-child policy and abolish labor camps in an effort to improve human rights.

* The current system allows the police the people to detail petty offenders.

* As a part of the reforms, China said it will reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty.

* Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child.

E:

* The law may hurt China’s elderly, who typically rely on their children for support in old age, and even constrains economic growth as the working age population begins to decline.

* More families will have 2 children, increasing the population of the already overpopulated country.

US image on roller coaster ride since Cold War

P:

-Soviet Union

-The Cold War

- The United States of...