Victim's relative: Shaoguan, Urumqi violence have no link
BEIJING,July 10-- A family member of a Uygur man who died in a toy factory brawl in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong Province, condemned the Xinjiang riot and rejected some reports that the two incidents have any link. The brawl between Han and Uygur workers which killed two Uyghurs is said to have sparked Sunday's riot that left 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured thousands of kilometers away i...

Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...

China orders mosques closed amid ethnic unrest
Mosques in the riot-hit capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang province have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of recent ethnic violence, media reports quoted Chinese officials as saying. An official who identified herself as a government worker but refused to give her name was quoted as saying the decision to close mosques in Urumqi had been made for public safety and that "people should stay at home today and pray." Separately, officials ...

China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest
China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 4:16 PM ET Comments103...

TIME Magazine: The Bible & The Apocalypse
The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...

An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
Attackers kill 16 police in Chinese border province 04/08/2008 10:53:15 PM An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead....

Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist
Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist 10:54:59 EST Feb 17, 2006 ...

Life returns to Palestinian village
Life returns to Palestinian village by Motasem A Dalloul in al-Syafa, Gaza Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:32 AM GMT Al-Syafa was under a virtual Israeli lockdown for five years Nearly four months after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian village once cordoned off between two Jewish settlements is slowly coming back to life. Located in the northern Gaza Strip, the village of al-Syafa had been caught between the Israeli set...