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...streets of the cities and towns of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang you can hear complaints from the Uighur minority group about restrictions on the Islamic religion they practice, their Turkic language or their culture, which is most closely linked to the lands of Central Asia. But in interviews in Urumqi, the regional capital that exploded with ethnic rioting last week that left 184 dead, the single most common complaint of Uighur residents is that they feel excluded from economic opportunity...
...presidential election and its fallout has quickened its pace. An Iranian student who is supposed to enter a university in New England this fall says that worsening relations may have dashed his chance to secure an American visa (stories abound of Iranians waiting upwards of a year to hear about their applications). "We cannot stay in this country," he says. "But the Americans do not want us in theirs. All my friends want to leave, but what...
...think you're passed the danger point? I think so. We've come too far now to see it slip back. The greatest risk I face is resistance to change. [Often] we hear about assassination attempts. It's always a risk...
...judgment," wrote one man on the wall of another Facebook group, Marwa El-Sherbini "Muslim Martyr." Even Iran, Egypt's traditional adversary, has joined the fray, holding a symbolic funeral for Sherbini in Tehran on Friday and summoning the German ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to hear Iran's formal protest over the attack...
...balance remains to be settled. The L.A. attorney's office is investigating how the cash-strapped city got stuck with the bill - and how it can press other parties to chip in. Officials have reached out to members of the Jackson family, though their response is as yet unknown. (Hear TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson songs...