Chinese protest beating death
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The beating death of a passer-by who filmed a streetside fracas between villagers and authorities touched off protests in central China, in the latest incident to underscore public anger over abusive treatment by government employees.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on  the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on  Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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SHANGHAI -- The savage beating death of a reporter has shone a rare light on the corrupt, money-driven underbelly of Chinese journalism, where many reporters take bribes to write good news and extort companies to suppress their dirty laundry.
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Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Zhao Ziyang, a Chinese reformist  toppled as Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital Monday, his family said. He was 85.
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One person was killed and at least 59 were injured Sunday in violent ethnic protests in southern Nepal, police said.
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A group of veteran China Communist  Party members has urged the leadership to assure proper funeral  honors for Zhao Ziyang, purged as party chief in 1989 for  sympathising with the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
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China holds a scaled-down funeral on  Saturday for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief toppled in  1989 for opposing the army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square  demonstrations for democracy.
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After overnight riots, thousands of people in Lebanon staged a protest following the death in custody of a suspected Al-Qaeda activist arrested for alleged bomb plots against Western embassies.
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Burmese police beat protesters including monks at a pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.
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Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai&#39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor.
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An inquiry is launched in China into claims that 10 workers have died building Beijing's Olympic stadium.
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Up to 50,000 workers upset over  mistreatment by local security guards clashed with police in a  town in China's Guangdong province, throwing rocks and bricks  and torching four police cars, a Hong Kong newspaper said on  Sunday.
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An advertisement saluting mothers of students and workers killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown appeared in a newspaper in southwest China on Monday, two witnesses said, in a rare public criticism of the massacre.
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More people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in either of the previous two years, with China alone accounting for 5,000 executions, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident of 2004. Rescue workers pulled more bodies from a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Beijing - Several people have been killed in violent ethnic clashes between the Muslim Hui minority and the Han majority in central China&#39;s Henan province, officials said Monday.