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Pakistan To Put Mumbai Attack Suspects On Trial

Pakistan has completed its investigations into five suspects accused of involvement in last year's attack on Mumbai, and they are expected to be put on trial next week, the interior minister has said.

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More quake-displaced victims in China's Yunnan accommodated

Authorities in southwest China's Yunnan Province confirmed Saturday 250,000 people have been displaced by Thursday's 6.0-magnitude, instead of 400,000 filed in a previous report.

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Senior officials meet to prepare for NAM summit in Sharm El Sheikh

Senior officials from over 140 countries began to meet here on Saturday to discuss the agenda and draft documents for the 15th Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM) summit due on July 15-16 in this Red Sea resort city, preparing for the movement's direction-taking summit in a new world situation, Xinhua reported.

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China raises Xinjiang death toll to 184

China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang to 184, the state Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, Reuters repoted.

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Japan has tried to destroy secret nuke documents: report

Japanese Foreign Ministry bureaucrats had ordered the destruction of copies of a 1960 secret nuclear agreement between Japan and the United States just before the information disclosure law took effect in 2001, The Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday.

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Turkish PM compares violence in China to genocide

Turkey's prime minister on Friday compared ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang province to genocide, escalating criticism of Beijing following this week's killing of at least 156 people - including Turkic-speaking, Muslim Uighurs, AP reported.

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Chinese government must investigate events in Xinjiang

President of Turkey Abdullah Gul said that he observes the events in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and considers that the Chinese Government should investigate the recent events, Turkish Anadolu news agency reported.

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Turkey should demonstrate activity towards events in China: Turkish analyst

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jul.9 / Trend News R.Hafizoglu /

The Turkish Government does not demonstrate activity towards events in China as it demonstrated to Gaza events, former MP from Saadet party, analyst Mehmet Bekaroglu said.

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Azerbaijani opposition party to protest in front of Chinese embassy

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The opposition party of Azerbaijan plans to hold a picket in front of the Chinese embassy in Baku.

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Pakistan: Suspected US missile kills 3

A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a communication center of the Pakistani Taliban leader Friday, killing at least three people, intelligence officials said.

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Forces' resources come under fire

Criticism of the resources provided to British forces in Afghanistan has intensified.

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Report: 2 US journalists in NKorea guest house

North Korea has delayed sending two convicted U.S. journalists to a prison labor camp, in a possible attempt to seek talks with Washington on their release, a scholar who visited the North said in an interview published Friday.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

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6.0-magnitude quake hits SW China

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwest China's Yunnan Province Thursday evening, according to the China National Seismological Network. No casualties have been reported.

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China opposes Turkey's call for UN talks on Xinjiang

China on Thursday dismissed Turkey's proposal of discussing Xinjiang's riots in the United Nations Security Council, saying the incident was a domestic issue, Xinhua reported.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

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China flexes muscles in strife-torn Xinjiang

Armoured vehicles and trucks carrying thousands of Chinese troops rumbled through riot-damaged streets of the regional capital of northwestern Xinjiang on Thursday, blaring out propaganda urging ethnic unity, Reuters reported.

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Over thousand of Kazakhs return home from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

Over thousand of Kazakhs in the last two days returned home from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, said an official of the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan Erzhan Ashikbayev, KazTag reported.

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Pakistan: Operation in Swat over

Pakistani forces have wrapped up their operation in the Swat Valley and Buner, and the areas have been cleared of militants, the Pakistani Army claims, Press TV reported.

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Drones 'kill dozens' in Pakistan

Up to 50 suspected militants have been killed in two US attacks in north-west Pakistan, local officials told the BBC.

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Ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in China must be ended: Turkish Prime Minister

The ethnic cleansing of Uighurs must be ended, said Turkish Prime Minister Rajap Tayyip Erdogan, touching upon the conflict between the Uighurs and the Chinese of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, CNN Turk reported.

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Ethnic conflict in China must be solved through dialogue: OIC secretary general

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 8 / Trend News, R.Hafizoglu /

Ethnic conflict between the Uighur Turks, living in China, and Chinese should be resolved through dialogue, said Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the OIC reported.

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