2 killed in rioting at Honduran football match, including 12-year-old boyTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A fight between fans at a Honduran soccer game has left two people dead, including a 12-year-old boy. Riot police separate protesting black separatists, white supremacists in TexasPARIS, Texas — Texas state riot police have swarmed into the streets of an eastern Texas town and broken up a tense standoff between screaming black separatists and white supremacists. Fired SKorean auto workers, riot police square off amid labor disputeSEOUL, South Korea — Helicopters sprayed tear gas on militant auto workers using slingshots to shoot nuts and bolts at riot police Tuesday amid a tense labor dispute at the main factory of an ailing South Korean automaker. China says riot wasn’t there fault, blame it on ’separatists’
Fired SKorean auto workers use slingshots in standoff with riot policePYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Fired auto workers occupying part of a South Korean automaker’s assembly line used slingshots to fire pieces of metal at riot police Tuesday, while media reports expressed fears of a violent ending to the standoff. South Korean riot police enter Ssangyong Motor factory amid costly strikeSEOUL, South Korea — South Korean riot police entered Ssangyong Motor’s only factory Monday where hundreds of fired workers, some armed with slingshots, have been occupying part of the facility for two months. China says police killed 12 people in Urumqi riots, but says unrest premeditatedBEIJING — The Chinese government acknowledged for the first time that police killed 12 people during July 5 unrest in western China but put the blame squarely on rioters, saying they stockpiled weapons and planned synchronized attacks on targets across the city of Urumqi. China says police killed 12 people in Urumqi’s July 5 rioting, raises death toll to 197BEIJING — Chinese police killed 12 people during July 5 rioting in the western city of Urumqi, officials said — a rare acknowledgment by the government that security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic clashes to hit the region in decades. Mosques open for Friday prayers in Urumqi, but China continues to keep tight lid on cityURUMQI, China — More than 100 Chinese riot police with shields and wooden sticks lined up directly across the street from a popular mosque during Friday prayers, warning worshippers not to protest again in this western city rocked by the region’s worst rioting in decades. Trashcans and tempers smoldering in Jerusalem after 3 nights of religious riotsJERUSALEM — Smoldering trashcans and broken glass littered Jerusalem streets Friday as police prepared for a fourth day of rioting by ultra-Orthodox Jews enraged at the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child. Greece to allow police CCTV, DNA database after riots, terror attacksATHENS, Greece — Greece’s parliament has approved measures allowing police to use surveillance camera footage and create a DNA database, angering opposition parties that say the new powers will trample on people’s privacy. Ultra-Orthodox Jews riot in Jerusalem over arrest of Hasidic woman charged with starving childJERUSALEM — Ultra-Orthodox Jews throwing rocks and firecrackers clashed with police using horses and water cannon in Jerusalem on Thursday, in the third day of rioting over the arrest of a mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her child. Chinese prosecutor ready to issue arrest warrants for those involved in Urumqi riotsURUMQI, China — Authorities have completed an initial investigation into ethnic riots that left 192 people dead in China’s restive Western region and arrest warrants will be issued soon, the chief prosecutor for Xinjiang said. Chinese embassy in Algeria warns of reprisals against workers after unrest in Muslim westURUMQI, China — China’s embassy in Algeria has warned Chinese companies and workers to be on guard for attacks after an Islamist Web site called for retaliation for Beijing’s response to unrest in its predominantly Muslim western province. Analysis: Income gaps and official corruption fuel clashes in China’s streetsBEIJING — Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China. Northern Ireland divisions on parade as Catholics riot over Protestants paradeBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police into the night as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end. Catholic youths opposed to Protestant parade hurl firebombs, fireworks at Belfast policeBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Militant Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at Northern Ireland police Monday in a failed effort to prevent a Protestant parade from passing through the bitterly divided north side of Belfast. Urumqi government says police kill 2 Uighur men, wound 1 after they were attackedURUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive numbers of troops sent to restore calm more than a week after deadly ethnic rioting. Chinese police kill 2 Uighur men, wound a third after they were attacked with knivesURUMQI, China — Police shot dead two Uighur men and wounded a third Monday on the streets of Urumqi, where tens of thousands of troops are stationed to restore calm a week after deadly ethnic riots raged in the western Chinese city. China’s government says police kill 2 Uighur men, wound a third after they were attackedURUMQI, China — China’s government says police shot dead two Uighur men and wounded a third after the men attacked officers who were breaking up “a violent incident.” Autocracy continues in China; Armed police beat down bleeding man in city street
Chinese authorities ease security in Urumqi as roads and shops reopenURUMQI, China — More roads reopened and shops unlocked their doors in Urumqi on Monday, but sporadic incidents reflected the underlying tensions in the city in western China where 184 people died in recent ethnic unrest. After ethnic violence, Han Chinese and Uighurs in restive west struggle to make way forwardURUMQI, China — Incense was lit and paper money burned at the funeral Sunday for a Han Chinese family — a man, his wife and his parents, all killed in last week’s ethnic riots. Three Uighur neighbors approached, standing tentatively apart. China raises injured toll from ethnic riots in country’s far west to 1,680URUMQI, China — China on Sunday raised the injured toll from ethnic clashes a week ago to 1,680 — one more bit in the trickle of information the government has released on the unrest in the far west, though much remains unknown. State media says Xinjiang government raises injured toll in China riots to 1,680URUMQI, China — State media says the Xinjiang government has raised the injured toll in last week’s riots in the restive Chinese region to 1,680. China riot city is tense but calm 1 week after violence that left 184 people deadURUMQI, China — The center of the riot-hit city of Urumqi was tense but calm Sunday, one week after ethnic fighting began that left 184 people dead and alarmed China’s communist leaders. Uighurs dispute China’s contention that 184 riot dead were mostly from Han Chinese majorityURUMQI, China — China released a breakdown Saturday of the death toll from communal rioting, saying most of the 184 killed were from the Han Chinese majority — an announcement that only fueled suspicion among Muslim Uighurs that many more of their people died. Death toll in riot-rocked western China raised to 184; reports say most were Han ChineseURUMQI, China — The Chinese government on Saturday raised the death toll from the communal rioting in western Xinjiang to 184 and issued the first ethnic breakdown of the dead, showing that most of those killed were from China’s Han majority. Death toll in riot-rocked western China raised to 184 as reports say most Han ChineseURUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving the first ethnic breakdown of the dead nearly a week after communal violence broke out in this far western city. Muslim women lead protests, confront police, speak out in riot-rocked western ChinaURUMQI, China — The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. |
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BEIJING — China on Tuesday defended its policies on ethnic minorities, saying the violence in Xinjiang that killed nearly 200 people this month was triggered by separatists and not its treatment of Uighurs. During a televised news conference, the vice minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission blamed an underground separatist movement of Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs and said China will never tolerate secession in its far western region.
