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China has sentenced five more people to death for crimes committed during riots in the western region of Xinjiang in July in country's worst ethnic violence in decades.
China said Wednesday that police had detained 94 people who fled the western region of Xinjiang after deadly rioting there in July — the country's worst communal violence in decades.
China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.
Police in China's far west have stepped up a hunt for people who took part in deadly ethnic riots there four months ago and other so-called terrorists, the regional public security ministry said Tuesday.
The Colts want Adam Vinatieri at full strength later this season, one to two months from now. Until then, they're content using another veteran kicker, Matt Stover.
Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston expressed surprise over stinging criticism from his own team, and insisted Friday he doesn't feel the need to regain favor in his own clubhouse.
Fighting reportedly broke out Thursday between an ethnic militia and government security forces in northeastern Myanmar, breaching a two-decade cease-fire.
President Hu Jintao made his first trip to China's restive western region of Xinjiang since last month's deadly ethnic riots, urging government officials and security forces to focus on maintaining stability and warning separatists that they are "doomed to fail."
Peruvian Amazon Indian leaders are warning of renewed protests, alleging Friday that the government has not honored promises made in the aftermath of June violence that left at least 23 police and 10 Indians dead.
A Peruvian government prosecutor presented homicide charges against two police generals and 15 other officers for a June government crackdown at an Amazon highway blockade manned by Indians protesting development on their ancestral lands.
In an Aug. 5 story about Nigeria's amnesty program for militants, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the program began Wednesday, Aug. 5. It began on Thursday, Aug. 6.
Nigeria's government says a program to offer amnesty to militants in the country's restive southern oil region has begun.
The Communist Party boss of a Chinese city and head of law enforcement were dismissed Saturday for mishandling violent protests last month after a young man's mysterious death, a state news agency said.
French factory workers angry over layoffs and cost cuts locked up their bosses at a Michelin tire plant and a U.S.-owned cigarette-paper mill in a new eruption of "bossnappings."
Nigerian militants have freed six crew members abducted earlier this month from an oil tanker, a Norwegian oil services company said.
As many as 10,000 militants who have sabotaged oil production in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta could take advantage of an amnesty deal offered last month, an official said Friday.
Nigeria's main militant group says its has destroyed a recently repaired Chevron oil pipeline.
Militants in Nigeria say they have attacked two pipelines belonging to oil giant Royal Dutch Shell.
Hundreds of baton-wielding police dispersed protesters and cordoned off a city hotel in central China Sunday after a young man's mysterious death sparked unrest, a local official and a witness said.
Nigerian militants say they have sabotaged a pipeline in the restive southern Niger Delta region.
Nigeria's main militant group says it hopes to release within hours a British hostage seized nearly nine months ago in the country's restive southern oil region.
Militants sabotaged major crude pipelines in Nigeria's chaotic oil region on Monday, further trimming crude production as the military widened an operation to uproot the fighters.
Authorities in eastern China downplayed Wednesday a reported outbreak of university unrest just weeks ahead of a highly sensitive political anniversary.
Nigeria's main militant group said Sunday it destroyed two oil pipelines in the southern Niger Delta, the latest attack amid the worst outbreak of violence to hit the region in months.
Tuareg rebels fighting the government of Niger released their last hostage on Sunday, an interior minister said on state TV.
Iran's Unrest continues, amazing video of the violenceDaily Dish: "Nine minutes of Pain"
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Swedish cities hit by spate of arson and unrest Friday night was a troublesome one for many police forces across Sweden with several reports of arson and unrest. Police fear an escalation in the violence.
China blocking sanctions against JeM chief, India gives info NEW DELHI: With China blocking UN Security Council sanctions against Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, India has provided detailed information to it about his involvement in terror activities and hopes Beijing would support the move.
Pakistan Christians die in unrestSix Christians have been killed in religious unrest in Pakistan's central Punjab, after days of tension sparked by the rumoured desecration of a Koran.
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general saysGen. Sayyed Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of Iran's Joint Armed Forces, said Iranian soldiers were willing to die as they did in the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Accounts of Violence in XinjiangAs unrest continues in Xinjiang, people from the area and those with relatives there are continuing to send their accounts to the BBC.
Why China is cracking down on protests in Xinjiang - By John LeeThere is widespread disorder even in provinces that pose no challenge to Beijing's right to rule. In 2005, for example, there were 87,000 officially recorded instances of unrest (defined as those involving 15 or more people) -- up from just a few thousand incidents a decade ago.
Riots Erupt in Western China Amid Ethnic Tension At least 1,000 rioters clashed with the police on Sunday in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese, according to witnesses and photographs of the riot.
Iranian Cleric Urges Executing Some Protesters - ABC NewsHe reminded worshippers that Khamenei, the supreme leader, rules by God's design and must not be defied
Important Players in Iran's unrest This is a great tutorial about the important players in Iran's unrest.
Violence flares again in TehranNew violence again erupts in Tehran amidst allegations of a crackdown on foreign nationals. The British Foreign Office said it was looking into the claims. "We have seen reports of the arrest of British nationals in Iran.''
Ahmadinejad brushes off Iran election violence - washingtonpost.comTEHRAN, Iran -- Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities.
Ahmadinejad Makes New Threats, Plans Victory Rally Amid Protests Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his re-election was "real and free" and cannot be questioned.
Checkpoint Baghdad : Iraq Bombings Threaten to Renew ChaosI think after reading this artical that Iraq could possabley sink back into chos couseing much more death and destruction than ever.People i know in Iraq have been telling me for months that we onley get about thirty percent of what is really going on and that things are far wors …
Growing up we are told that America was founded on certain principles--principles based on broad moral/ethical concepts. Our founding fathers worked to setup a nation governed by citizens devoted to all other citizens.
During the recent campaigns and subsequent election I was both saddened and repulsed at what I thought was a horrible trend.
Food and energy shortages will create 'perfect storm', says Prof John Beddington The demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences, Prof Beddington predicts. Demand for food and energy will jump 50 per cent by 2030 and for fresh water by 30 per cent, as the global population tops 8.3 billion, he is due to tell a conference in London.
The Republican Civil WarMore important, the mindset it betrays is at the heart of many of the problems of the Republican Party, going back for years, long before Michael Steele appeared on the scene.
Financial crisis sparks unrest in Europe | Special CoverageThe global financial crisis has sparked protests in many parts of Europe this year. Over the weekend there were demonstrations in Portugal, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Bangladesh troops find mass grave Bangladeshi troops searching the site of a mutiny in Dhaka have uncovered a grave thought to hold the bodies of 58 officers killed by mutineers.
Britain - Police fear 'summer of rage' with middle-class protestsSenior officers are concerned that victims of the economic downturn who have lost their jobs, homes or savings, will take to the streets to riot.
NATO Report on Civilian Deaths in AfghanistanA confidential NATO report from January reveals that civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46% over the past year. The 12 page report was authenticated and released in full today by Wikileaks.
Venezuela campaign gets roughIn the final days before a crucial referendum that will determine whether President Hugo Chávez can run for re-election indefinitely, campaigning has taken on a noticeable, and sometimes ugly, edge.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, has declared the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, all but defeated.
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