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Irans most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic
revolution intensifies as state media says that 10 more people have
died in clashes surrounding the disputed presidential election. The
report brings the official death to at least 17
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A court in China's far western Xinjiang region has sentenced six
men to death for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic
riots that killed nearly 200 people. A seventh man was given life
imprisonment.The sentences Monday were the first for any of the
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Uighurs and members of the Han Chinese majority in the regional
capital of Urumqi. It was China's worst communal violence in
decades.The names of the convicted men seemed to identify them as
Uighurs. The verdicts appeared aimed at placating Han Chinese who
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