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Leader Profile: Student Activist Yang Jianli

By PBS News Hour

Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later.

Leader Profile: Student Activist Wang Dan

By PBS News Hour

Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime.

Leader Profile: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng

By PBS News Hour

In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators.

Leader Profile: Chinese Communist Party Official Zhao Ziyang

By PBS News Hour

On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability.

Leader Profile: Chinese Patriarch Deng Xiaoping

By PBS News Hour

While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early…

Kim Jong Il Reportedly Taps Youngest Son as Heir, South Korean Media Say

By PBS News Hour

Amid recent military moves, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has signaled that his youngest son will assume the ruling family dynasty and become the secretive nation's next leader, South Korean news reports said Tuesday.

Pilot Details Possible Troubles Faced by Air France Flight

Pilot Ben Berman discusses the possible problems that an Air France flight en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris feared lost over the Atlantic Ocean may have encountered in a strong storm.

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Air France Jet Lost Over Atlantic With 228 Aboard

An Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris is feared lost over the Atlantic Ocean after likely experiencing electrical failure in a strong storm. Carl Dinnen of Independent Television News updates the story.

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Militants Abduct 400 in Northwest Pakistan

By PBS News Hour

Taliban militants abducted at least 400 students, staff and relatives from a military-run college in a northwest Pakistani tribal region on Monday.

Missing Air France Plane Presumed to Have Crashed

By PBS News Hour

An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean and went missing Monday, according to officials.