China to hold talks next week human rights

"Discussions will focus on the evolution of the human rights, including the recent negative tendency of enforced disappearances, illegal detention and arrests and convictions, and the rule of law, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, the rights of labour", the rights of minorities and other issues of concern human rights "the State Department,"said in a news release.

The talks will be held on April 27 and 28 with the Assistant Secretary for democracy, the of the human rights and labor Michael Posner, leading a delegation interagency talks, said the statement.

China has recently extended a crackdown on dissidents, human rights lawyers and protesters challenging the Communist party controls, repression that caused an outcry in Washington and other Western capitals.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier this month that it was "deeply concerned" on the Suppression of China and city "negative tendencies", including the detention of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei human rights activist.

IA, 53, was arrested on 3 April, he was preparing to Commission a flight to Hong Kong from Beijing. Chinese police said IA, a critique of China's ruling Communist Party, is under investigation for "suspected economic crimes."

China has said that he was willing to discuss its differences on the rights of man "with mutual respect" with the United States after rejecting a critical official report from Washington as interference in its internal affairs.

The State Department said that the talks, the next week would be a channel of in-depth discussions on issues of rights of man between American and Chinese experts.

(Reported by JoAnne Allen;) (Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Police: remains of Long Island are human

Booth of police near a place where the remains were found Monday in the County of Nassau on the Island.The New York Long skull and remains were found Monday in Nassau CountyAuthorities have not linked them to eight sets of remains found in Suffolk CountyPolice focus on the death of several young women in the region

New York (CNN) - remains found Monday on Long Island, New York, have been identified as a human being, the police said Tuesday.

The remains, with a human skull found Monday, were found as authorities investigate a serial killer assumed operating in the region. Police have not confirmed whether the most recent remains are related to the other eight sets of human remains found in Suffolk County, just east of the County of Nassau.

The skull was found on the periphery of a bird sanctuary in the town of Oyster Bay. The County of Nassau police officer James Imperial said Tuesday that he had been positively identified as a human being, with the other remains. Those who are found about four hours before the skull by a New York City police officer state and his dead dog, about a kilometre and a half away.

The discoveries came on the first day that authorities probing the death of several young women pickled the area for evidence. The other remains in the County of Suffolk, were found about five miles from the sites of the discoveries of Monday.

"He has been very surprising, all of this has been," Lieutenant Kevin Smith of the Nassau County Police Department told journalists Monday. "It's just incredible that we will find these things." Obviously, we have much work to do. ?

Investigators are working on the assumption that one person is responsible for the death. Four victims that have been identified to date, all announced services of prostitution on Web sites such as Craigslist, authorities said.

"Collectively, we want to bring to justice the animal who has obviously taken the life of a number of people," said Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano Monday.

The authorities speak not what kind of remains were found Monday, and Smith did not detail the condition of the skull found in the afternoon.

But police have said that the body discovered earlier are in various stages of decomposition, which at least one of which could be he y as long as two years, according to the Commissioner of Police County of Suffolk Richard Dormer.

The remains included four women bodies found in December stuffed in the bushes along a quarter mile long sea front band. Last week, three bodies were discovered a few kilometres from the other, fueling speculation that they could be the work of a serial killer. A woman's body was found March 29 off the coast of Ocean Parkway, West of Cedar beach.

Missing woman that prompted authorities to launch research - 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert - has not yet been identified.

K-9 units and diving teams had been added to the search operation to locate Gilbert, who has been seen living in may in the Gilgo Beach area.

The Sisters of said Gilbert that Shannan is an attendant who was visiting a customer. They said that she went to the House of the man and called 911, stating that someone is attempting to injure.

Several neighbours also called 911, say witnesses.

Police came more than 30 minutes later, but by Gilbert then disappeared and it has never been heard again.

"You want to believe that everything was OK with it," said Sherre Gilbert. "But at the same time so much time has passed it is impossible to really think that she is still alive.".

Sherre Gilbert said even if his sister is never found, the research has led to a positive result: the discovery of another body of women.

Some residents of the region, at the same time, said Tuesday that the macabre discoveries have left the shaken.

"It is just crazy, said Walter Arnold, 65, who - with his wife Dolores - raised five children in a House on Long Island West Gilgo Beach." My wife is scared to come home for the first time. My daughter is frightened. "It is simply horrible".

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NATO says that Libya is using human shields

Son of Gaddafi floating an agreement?New: General NATO: Gaddafi forces using human shieldsNEW: General: shields and weather conditions have complicated airstrike missionsRebel forces taken retirement gathering of panic of al-BregaOne, son of Muammar al-Gaddafi could take over from his fathera source says

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - Efforts to prevent forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to attack civilians were complicated by the weather and the decision of the regime to hide military equipment in populated areas and use civilians as human shields in Misrata and other zonesL' NATO brigadier general Marc van Uhm said Tuesday.

Rebel leaders have criticized the efforts of NATO in recent days, saying that civilians and rebel forces in Misrata and elsewhere have suffered under the infernal attacks forces pro-Gaddafi with little evidence of NATO air power overload.

Van Uhm, Chief of operations with NATO, defended the efforts of the Organization, saying planes under NATO command flew 58 missions Monday, firing weapons and targets pro-Gaddafi striking on 14 of them strikes.

He did not immediately the figures on the previous days, but the spokesman for the NATO Oana Lungescu said that combat aircraft had conducted 334 strike sorties since his arrival in the mission command March 23.

"I believe that you can say safely that the operational tempo continues unabated," she said.

Given that the efforts to implement the resolution of the Nations United began in mid-March, air strikes took on about 30 percent of the military capability of Gaddafi, said van Uhm.

Air strikes Monday hit an active rocket launchers in al-Brega, an air defence and military vehicles near Misrata and ammunition storage facilities, said van Uhm.

Rebels complained Monday that they had not seen or heard the air strikes of NATO for more than 24 hours, despite the disappearance of the attacks of the pro-Gaddafi in Misrata and al-Brega forces, among others.

"You are supposed to be implementation of this resolution and clearly, it is not implemented in Misrata, it is not implemented in Zintan or Zahwiya and we're wondering, where are they?" rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani, said Monday.

Gaddafi forces seemed to have the upper hand Tuesday in renewed fighting in the city of al-Brega oil, where rebel forces have been staging a retreat made panic under intense artillery bombardment, according to CNN journalists in the region.

The setback is the latest in a ragtag opposition who fought to keep the soil against the better trained and equipped forces of Gaddafi, and it's less than a day after that the rebel commanders said they had the forces of the Libyan leader has long been on the defensive in al-Brega.

During this time, carnage more common in the besieged city of Misrata Monday, and a rebel spokesman, said an effort directed by NATO to help protect civilians appear non-existent in some areas.

Five people were killed and 24 wounded when of clashes Monday between pro-Gaddafi forces and the rebels in Misrata, two sources told CNN.

Residents have said that the city was steamed offshore by the troops of Gaddafi, with electricity and access to cut food.

"Every day, life is gets increasingly more difficult, said a resident, who is not identified for security reasons." He y long queues of people for bread and fuel. ?

He added that some do not leave their homes for days at a time.

"There are snipers shoot everything that moves," said the resident. "They are controlling the main road leading to the outside of the city."

Without the end of the bloody war of the Libya with a view, a source close the direction of the country said a Libyan envoy is floating the idea of leader Muammar Gaddafi from his power a son - a rebel leaders of concept feel simply cosmetic.

Under the proposal, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, 38, would usher in reform swift, said the source. But Saif Gaddafi has become one of the most ardent defenders of his father since the beginning of the agitation, despite once being perceived as a leading reformer in the Libyan Government.

Who is Saif Gaddafi?

A proposal to pass the power of Gaddafi to his son, the second oldest is "a ridiculous offer", said Ali Aujali, former Libyan Ambassador to the United States which is now the Libyan opposition in Washington.

"Libyan people, they decided, and they will not return all the Qaddafi () or any member of his family," Aujali said. "His son, they are killers - they are like their father."

AUJALI said the rebels are willing to offer Muammar Gaddafi and his family safe passage of the Libya in an Exchange which is set to their offer to put an end to the fighting - but.

Although Gaddafi has shown no sign of appeasement of the opposition or renounce his power of anyone outside his family, cracks in his armor who did surface.

His confidant of long date and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Moussa Koussa, recently fled to London and announced his resignation from the Libyan Government. Monday, Department of the Treasury of the United States lifted the freeze on the assets of the KUSA after its demerger of Gaddafi.

Gheriani said while the conflict persists, it is still hopeful for a revolution.

"I think that the Gaddafi regime collapses Interior," he said. "I think that if you look at the history, people will always win, and I think that the victory will be ours.".CNN Nic Robertson, Reza Sayah, Ben Wedeman, Brian Todd and Yousuf Basil contributed to this report.

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