China riots: 140 killed, 816 injured (Update-China)

BEIJING - At least 140 people have been killed in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang in what has been described by the government as the area’s worst case of ethnic unrest in years.

Witnesses say ethnic protest spreads to second city in China’s Xinjiang region

BEIJING — Witnesses say an ethnic protest has spread to a second city in China’s western Xinjiang province after riots rocked the region’s capital, killing at least 140 and injuring more than 800.

China official says 140 people killed, 828 hurt amid riots in restive far west

URUMQI, China — Violent street battles killed at least 140 people and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China’s volatile western Xinjiang region in decades, and officials said Monday the death toll was expected to rise.

Remote Pacific archipelago Palau agrees to take Guantanamo’s Chinese Uighur detainees

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the major obstacles to closing the U.S. prison camp.

With audience numbers in decline, China state television plans to revamp staid news broadcast

BEIJING — China’s state broadcaster plans to revamp its staid news broadcasts for the first time in a decade to combat a sharp decline in viewership, an official newspaper said Wednesday.

Canada tells US it will not accept Guantanamo detainees

TORONTO - Canada has flatly rejected an American request to accept Chinese Uighur Muslim detainees, held at Guantanamo Bay prison, as refugees.

Moderate Islam needs to condemn jihadism unequivocally (Comment)

There has been an outpouring of sympathy for India from all over the world after the recent Mumbai carnage just like what the US received after 9/11. In recent years there have been such senseless killings in Bali, Indonesia (October 2002), Madrid train killings (March 2004), and the London bombings (July 2005). Between 9/11 in the US and 26/11 in India, there have been regular jihadi killings in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Algeria, China and Russia. But jihadi terrorism involving the World Trade Center (New York), Madrid, Bali and London has been getting the world attention without any attempt to identify and solve the fundamental problem behind the carnage.