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George Clooney speaks to investors' group in HK

The Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney speaks to the CLSA Investors' Forum about his movie career and human rights activism, especially his involvement with the Satellite Sentinel Project, which a month ago disclosed evidence of two new mass graves around the border area of South Sudan. The invitation-only meeting is for 1,500 institutional investors and 300 senior executives.

Last-ditch efforts to save inmate from execution

An American man convicted of gunning down an off-duty policeman in 1989 is due to be executed amid last-ditch efforts to save his life. A Georgia parole board, in a case that has garnered worldwide attention and twice reached the US Supreme Court, decided yesterday Troy Davis should be put to death by lethal injection rather than be granted clemency. The doubts over Davis's conviction - there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime and seven of the nine witnesses have since withdrawn or changed their testimony - elevated the case to a cause c?l?bre among death penalty opponents.

Envoys from two Koreas meet in Beijing

South Korean nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac meets North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho in Beijing for talks on Pyongyang's nuclear plans. Both sides will be trying to hash out issues in an attempt to restart long-stalled six-nation talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament.

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