Former Taliban official turned peace negotiator Arsala Rahmani was assassinated on May 13th in Kabul. His death strikes yet another blow to peace efforts in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Uighur exiles hold their biggest gathering in three years in Tokyo and make China see red. Finally, pop sensation Lady Gaga runs into trouble in Indonesia. Authorities say she can't perform there because her songs are too racy.
On the first official trip to China by a Turkish leader in 27 years, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paved the way for more bilateral cooperation on nuclear energy and made a trip to Xinjiang, where China's Muslim Uighur population resides.
Chinese authorities said Thursday that police killed seven members of a “terrorist group” in a hostage-rescue operation in the restive Xinjiang region, but an exile group of Uighurs said the violence occurred after a protest by the ethnic minority.
We head to China, where ethnic violence is once again rearing its head in the western Xinjiang province. Also, an Australian who spent five years as a Guantanamo Bay inmate publishes his memoirs, but a court rules he will not make any money from them. Finally, in India there are signs that the Bengal tiger could be making a comeback.
Chinese police shot and killed two men suspected of fomenting recent ethnic unrest as they tried to capture them on Monday. The men were both members of the Uighur minority that comprises close to half the population of the Xinjiang region.
Several people, including at least one policeman, have died during a raid on a police station in China's western Xinjiang province, which has been beset by ethnic clashes between the Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
At least one policemen, and several others were killed Monday when "several thugs" invaded and took hostages at a police station in the western Xinjiang province. Xinjiang has been beset by ethnic clashes between the Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
Seven people were killed on Thursday when a member of the Uighur minority drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and blew it up on the outskirts of Aksu in China's Xinjiang region, the site of deadly ethnic unrest last year.
The Chinese government has put into effect a massive security operation in Xinjiang on the first anniversary of the ethnic unrest that left at least 197 dead.
China said on Monday that it had executed nine people in connection with deadly ethnic unrest that erupted in the Xinjiang region in July. Authorities convicted 21 defendants in October.
