The Mexican government increased the number of people who have disappeared since the start of the country's drug war in 2006 and now lists 22,322 as missing, officials said this week. The government blamed the expulsion on an article Rosenberg wrote describing talk among some powerful Afghans of forming an interim governing committee if the two candidates could not come to an amicable agreement, a move that would amount to a coup d'état. 4 Rare acquittal: A Chinese court on Friday acquitted a death-row inmate who spent eight years behind bars for double murder in a high-profile case that observers say may be a rare exception in a court system riddled with wrongful convictions. Citing insufficient evidence, the high court of the southeastern province of Fujian overturned the guilty verdict against Nian Bin, a grocery shop owner accused of fatally poisoning a fellow villager's two children in 2006.