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A woman walks past anti-terror propaganda along the streets of Urumqi, in China’s Xinjiang region on September 16, 2014.
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A woman takes her lunch while sitting on a highway, part of an area blocked off by protesters of the Occupy Central movement, in Hong Kong, on October 7, 2014. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
Hong Kong protests dwindle, but talks with government likely to go nowhere
Hong Kong, Reuters—Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that brought tens of thousands on to the streets last week dwindled to a few hundred on Wednesday after activist leaders agreed to talks with the government which are all but certain to go nowhere. The student-led...Caption:
Uighur women stand next to a street to wait for a bus in downtown Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region in China, on May 1, 2014. (Reuters/Petar Kujundzic)
China bans beards, veils from Xinjiang city’s buses in security bid
Reuters—A city in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as the government battles unrest with a policy that critics said discriminates against Muslims. Xinjiang, home to the...Caption:
This file photo taken on March 2, 2014 shows Chinese police investigators inspecting the scene of an attack at the railway station in Kunming, in southwest China’s Yunnan province. (AFP Photo/Files)
More violence in China’s Xinjiang after deadly attack
Beijing, Reuters—Western tourists saw a body lying in a pool of blood in a major city in China’s violence-prone Xinjiang province on Wednesday, as security forces flooded in after the government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead elsewhere in...Caption:
A Chinese Muslim man fans himself as he waits for the time to break his fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Niujie mosque, the oldest and largest mosque in Beijing, on July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)