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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Urumqi</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Court upholds sentences to Xinjiang riot convicts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - The Higher People&#8217;s Court of Xinjiang upheld Friday sentences for 21 people convicted of murder and other crimes in the deadly July 5 riot here, a Xinhua report said. 

It also upheld the death penalty for nine of these convicts.	 	
The death sentences will take effect after the approval by the Supreme People&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six rioters sentenced to death in China&#8217;s Urumqi region</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Six people have been sentenced to death for their part in the murderous riots in Urumqi, capital of China&#8217;s Xinjing Uygur autonomous region, that took the lives of 197 people on July 5.

The six learned they face execution at the Intermediate People&#8217;s Court of Urumqi. It was a first-instance trial and there will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Separatist acts on web banned in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region legislature has passed a regulation prohibiting the instigation of ethnic separatist activities via the Internet, The China Daily reports.

Online activities compromising national security, damaging national and social interests, undermining ethnic unity, instigating ethnic secession and harming social stability will be severely punished, according to the regulation.
The rule follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syringe  attacks  continue  in  Urumqi  despite  death   penalty warning</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/syringe-attacks-continue-in-urumqi-despite-death-penalty-warning-163445/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Despite a death penalty  warning, 77 cases of needle attack were reported between Sunday and Monday evenings  in  Urumqi, the capital of  Xinjiang  Uygur  autonomous region, police say.

So far, police have caught 45 suspects during the syringe  scare, of whom 12 remain in police custody.
The procuratorate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those spreading rumours will face jail terms in Xinjiang: Chinese authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Authorities in riot-hit Chinese city of Urumqi have announced that those found spreading rumours will be jailed.

In order to maintain peace between fighting Han Chinese and Uighur groups, police has also threatened that needle attackers would be liable to death penalty.
&#8220;Those who deliberately concoct and spread false information about innocent members of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life returns to normal in Xinjiang capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Life gradually returned to normalcy Sunday in Urumqi, capital of northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang region Sunday, where police have eased traffic restrictions imposed in the wake of public protests. 

The city had witnessed widespread protests in the past several days after many people were stabbed by syringes. Five people were killed and at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xinjiang riots: Urumqi party chief, Xinjiang police chief removed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/xinjiang-riots-urumqi-party-chief-xinjiang-police-chief-removed-161013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - In the aftermath of Xinjiang riots that erupted on July 5, the party chief of Urumqi and police chief of northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been sacked.

According to a decision by the CPC Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Committee, Li Zhi, secretary of the Urumqi Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest-wracked city in western China calmer after top official sacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — The sacking of the head of a western Chinese city shaken by ethnic violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks appeared to dull public anger Sunday after three days of protests.

Although security was still heavy in Urumqi, many of the paramilitary troops had withdrawn from positions around the city. State television [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top China official in volatile, protest-wracked Urumqi sacked amid fears over syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — The head of a western city wracked by communal violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks has been sacked by Chinese authorities hoping to calm uneasy mobs and end protests that left the city on edge for three days.

Security was tight Sunday in Urumqi, but the city was calm with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top China official in volatile, protest-wracked Urumqi sacked amid public syringe attack fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Chinese leaders bowed to public demands and sacked the head of a western city wracked by communal violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks, hoping to calm uneasy mobs and end protests that percolated for a third day Saturday.

The removal of Urumqi&#8217;s Communist Party Secretary Li Zhi came amid reports of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China sacks senior officials in Xinjiang capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xinhua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - The communist party chief of Xinjiang capital Urumqi and the police chief of northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang region were removed from their posts Saturday.

Li Zhi, secretary of the Urumqi Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was replaced by Zhu Hailun, secretary of the CPC Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Political and Legislative Affairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City leader sacked after protests in western China leave 5 dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Chinese leaders removed the Communist Party chief of the restive western city of Urumqi on Saturday, trying to appease public anger following sometimes violent protests this week that the government worries could re-ignite deadly ethnic rioting.

Protesters marched by thousands on Thursday and Friday demanding the resignation of Li Zhi and the regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troops patrol Chinese city after protests left 5 dead over series of syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Thousands of troops, backed by tanks and metal barricades, patrolled the western city of Urumqi on Saturday after five people died in protests over a series of bizarre needle attacks that China&#8217;s police chief has blamed on Muslim separatists.

The hypodermic needle attacks have unnerved a population already shaken by ethnic rioting two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese city quiet after protests left 5 dead over series of syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Security was heavy in the western Chinese city of Urumqi on Saturday after two days of demonstrations over a series of syringe attacks left five people dead and 14 injured.

China&#8217;s security chief blamed Muslim separatists on Friday for the needle attacks that have heightened tensions following ethnic rioting in July that left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China official says 5 killed, 14 wounded during protests in restive western city</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Five people have died during mass protests sparked by a bizarre series of hypodermic needle stabbings in this western Chinese city that has been wracked by ethnic unrest, an official said Friday.

Deputy Mayor Zhang Hong said the deaths came on Thursday, during demonstrations by members of China&#8217;s majority Han ethnic group who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police chief blames Muslim separatists for needle attacks that jangled west China anew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;s police chief accused ethnic Muslim separatists of staging a bizarre series of hypodermic needle stabbings that sent thousands of Chinese into the streets in angry protests for a second day Friday to demand increased security in this western city.

Police used tear gas and public appeals to break up crowds of Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s public security minister blames ethnic separatists for needle attacks in troubled west</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chinas-public-security-minister-blames-ethnic-separatists-for-needle-attacks-in-troubled-west-159696/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;s Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu has blamed ethnic separatist forces for a bizarre series of needle attacks in the restive western region of Xinjiang.

Meng&#8217;s comments Friday come as thousands of mostly Han Chinese have taken to the streets of the regional capital Urumqi for a second day to demand increased security.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China police break up crowds marching on government, Communist Party offices in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Police used tear gas and public appeals Friday to break up crowds marching on government and Communist Party offices in western China to protest a lack of public security after a bizarre series of syringe stabbings that appeared ethnically motivated.

Thousands of people, mostly from the Han Chinese majority, took to the streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese police break up crowds marching on headquarters of party boss in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Police pushed back large crowds trying to march on Communist Party offices in Urumqi on Friday to voice anger at a lack of public security following a bizarre series of syringe stabbings that appeared ethnically motivated.

Chinese officials had put a security cordon around the western Chinese city a day earlier when more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty stalks Urumqi residents after needle stabbings</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/uncertainty-stalks-urumqi-residents-after-needle-stabbings-159392/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xinhua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Despite heavy security and patrolling helicopters, there was uncertainty among the residents of Urumqi in western China Friday morning following a wave of hypodermic needle stabbings and massive protests.

Helicopters were seen hovering over the city Friday morning, the second time since the July 5 riots that left 197 people dead. 	 	
&#8220;I bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security out in force after Chinese protest series of syringe attacks in western city</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bodeen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Police imposed tight security in Urumqi as residents voiced anger Friday, a day after thousands marched to protest a series of needle stabbings that appeared ethnically motivated in a city already on edge from deadly rioting.

Chinese officials had put a security cordon around the city Thursday after more than 10,000 people, mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further  unrest in west China&#8217;s Urumqi region following  syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Following a  spate  of  ethnically motivated  syringe attacks in China&#8217;s Xinjiang province,  renewed mass  demonstrations and violence was reported in the  region  on Thursday.

Thousands  of  people  gathered at  the  residential  quarter  of Xiaoximen,  at  Renmin Cinema [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry demonstrations in Chinese city after syringe attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xinhua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Crowds demanding security guarantees gathered at a number of places in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region in China, Thursday morning following hypodermic syringe attacks in the city. 

More than 1,000 people gathered in Xiaoximen area, a police officer said. 	 	
People also turned out in big crowds at the Renmin Cinema and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China wants mountain lakes on World Heritage List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xinhua</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - China is planning to include four mountain lakes in the country&#8217;s northwest on the World Heritage List, an expert said Tuesday. The lakes will be entered as a single unit on the list.

It will be the Xinjiang region&#8217;s first entry on the World Heritage List of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China formally arrests 83 people over riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Chinese authorities Tuesday formally arrested 83 people in connection with the July 5 riots that left 197 people dead and more than 1,600 injured in the country&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officials said. 

Prosecutor Utiku&#8217;er Abudrehman made the announcement at a press conference in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.	 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China detains 319 more people in riot probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Police in China&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang province have detained 319 more people in connection with the July 5 riots in this provincial capital. The arrests were made after the police said to have detained 1,572 people in connection with the clashes in which 197 people were killed and hundreds were injured.

The statement from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosques open for Friday prayers in Urumqi, but China continues to keep tight lid on city</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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&#8217;s worst rioting in decades.

About 1,000 faithful prayed without incident at the White Mosque in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese prosecutor ready to issue arrest warrants for those involved in Urumqi riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Authorities have completed an initial investigation into ethnic riots that left 192 people dead in China&#8217;s restive Western region and arrest warrants will be issued soon, the chief prosecutor for Xinjiang said.

Chinese authorities also got more aggressive in blocking foreign media from working in the streets of Urumqi, the regional capital where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese embassy in Algeria warns of reprisals against workers after unrest in Muslim west</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;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&#8217;s response to unrest in its predominantly Muslim western province.

A notice posted late Tuesday on the embassy&#8217;s Web site follows a torrent of ethnic clashes this month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China riot-hit city still tense a day after police shoot dead 2 Uighur men</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Security tightened Tuesday in the capital of China&#8217;s western Xinjiang region, where paramilitary police blocked access to a Uighur neighborhood where two Uighurs were fatally shot a day earlier, the latest violent clash in the wake of last week&#8217;s ethnic riots.

Security forces with shields and rifles lay a band of spikes across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urumqi government says police kill 2 Uighur men, wound 1 after they were attacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

It was the first time the Chinese government has acknowledged that its security forces opened fire since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police shoot dead two Uighurs in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Police in China&#8217;s restive Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have shot dead two Uighur men in an attempt to stop them killing another.  

According to authorities, a police team patrolling in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, saw a group of three people trying to kill a passerby.	 	
They fired warning shots to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese police kill 2 Uighur men, wound a third after they were attacked with knives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

Police said the three men attacked them when they tried to pull them off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s government says police kill 2 Uighur men, wound a third after they were attacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;s government says police shot dead two Uighur men and wounded a third after the men attacked officers who were breaking up &#8220;a violent incident.&#8221;

A government official in the western city of Urumqi who would give only his surname Fan said Monday that police were attacked after they stopped the three men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autocracy continues in China; Armed police beat down bleeding man in city street</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gunfire-heard-in-chinas-riot-hit-urumqi-city-chinese-police-beat-man-bloody-with-batons-107825/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Frightened Urumqi residents watched Monday as police in bulletproof vests carrying pistols, shotguns and batons chased down a man and kicked and beat him, shattering a relative calm in the tense city in western China.

Gunfire was heard before and during the brief incident in Urumqi — where recent ethnic unrest left 184 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese authorities ease security in Urumqi as roads and shops reopen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

The July 5 riots and subsequent unrest in Urumqi also left 1,680 wounded, and state media have warned that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After ethnic violence, Han Chinese and Uighurs in restive west struggle to make way forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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&#8217;s ethnic riots. Three Uighur neighbors approached, standing tentatively apart.

Then one of the neighbors grasped hands with a mourning sister, walked to the altar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China raises injured toll from ethnic riots in country&#8217;s far west to 1,680</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the number of people wounded during the ethnic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State media says Xinjiang government raises injured toll in China riots to 1,680</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — State media says the Xinjiang government has raised the injured toll in last week&#8217;s riots in the restive Chinese region to 1,680.

The official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday the number of people wounded during the ethnic violence that broke out July 5 in the regional capital of Urumqi has increased by nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China riot city is tense but calm 1 week after violence that left 184 people dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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&#8217;s communist leaders.

Armed paramilitary police were on guard in People&#8217;s Square, the site of the July 5 protest by minority Uighurs that escalated into deadly attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tense western China looks for answers after week of chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Wong</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — It was about 8 p.m. when the mob descended on Zhongwan Road. The police didn&#8217;t arrive until six hours later. In the time between, most residents locked their doors and hid, peering out through windows and listening from basements as ethnic violence raged in China&#8217;s western Xinjiang province.

The next morning, residents in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xinjiang riots affected tourism, China says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Authorities in northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang province Saturday said that tourism and air transport have been affected by the July 5 ethnic violence that claimed at least 184 lives. 

Authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said Saturday both tourism and air transport have been hurt by the July 5 riot that left 184 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uighurs dispute China&#8217;s contention that 184 riot dead were mostly from Han Chinese majority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

Identifying the ethnic background of the dead for the first time since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death toll in riot-rocked western China raised to 184; reports say most were Han Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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&#8217;s Han majority.

The official Xinhua News Agency, citing provincial officials, said 137 victims in the riot were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urumqi riots toll rises to 184</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - The death toll in the riots in China&#8217;s Urumqi city has risen to 184, authorities said Saturday. 

The dead comprise 137 people from the Han community, including 26 women. Forty-six were Uighurs, including one woman. A man of Hui community also died, the information office of the regional government said. 	 	
The riots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death toll in riot-rocked western China raised to 184 as reports say most Han Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

The official Xinhua News Agency said 137 victims were of the dominant Han ethnic group, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim women lead protests, confront police, speak out in riot-rocked western China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, 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.

When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death toll in China&#8217;s Xinjiang riot rises to 184, state media report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — China&#8217;s state news agency says the death toll in ethnic rioting in western Xinjiang region has risen from 156 to 184.

Xinhua News Agency reported Friday that the dead included 137 people — 111 men and 26 women — from the dominant ethnic Han Chinese group. The agency says the other fatalities include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scared faces gather in China&#8217;s mosques to pray after riot trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI, China — Boisterous crowds in this riot-hit western China city turned up at mosques despite announcements that Friday prayers were canceled due to the recent ethnic violence, forcing officials to let them in. Some of the mosques were in areas of Urumqi that saw street fighting earlier this week, after angry demonstrations by minority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xinjiang Muslims gear up for Friday prayers, but at home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URUMQI - Some mosques in Xinjiang&#8217;s restive capital Urumqi were closed Friday, even as Muslims were being persuaded to attend their weekly congregational prayer at home following Sunday&#8217;s deadly riot that killed at least 156 people.

According to the official Xinhua news agency, all five major mosques near the Southern Jiefang Road, the center of the [...]]]></description>
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