Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Chinese police shot dead Urumqi 'mobsters': state media (AFP)
• China says police shot dead 12 Uighurs this month (Reuters)
• Report: Group tied to al-Qaida threatens China (AP)

Chinese police shot dead Urumqi 'mobsters': state media (AFP) Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:37 PM PDT AFP - Chinese police shot dead 12 "mobsters" during unrest in Urumqi on July 5, state media reported Sunday, quoting a local official saying the action was taken to prevent further bloodshed.

China says police shot dead 12 Uighurs this month (Reuters) Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:16 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese police shot dead 12 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang this month, regional governor Nuer Baikeli said on Saturday, in a rare government admission of deaths inflicted by security forces.

Report: Group tied to al-Qaida threatens China (AP) Posted: 18 Jul 2009 06:35 AM PDT AP - A group linked to al-Qaida that threatened to disrupt last year's Beijing Olympics is vowing to avenge Muslim Uighurs who died in ethnic violence with Chinese earlier this month.

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