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...grew up, preferring the more homespun methods of Rafael's uncle Toni, whose tennis credentials consist of a brief stint competing on the national circuit. Passing up funding from Spain's national tennis academy, and scholarship money from America's private academies, Rafael and Toni would travel to the mainland only when a tournament required it. More skillful opponents were viewed as problems to overcome, not exemplars to be mimicked. Nadal - who first picked up a racquet aged 3 - and his coach found their own solutions, developing a style of play concerned less with form and technique than with results...
...Some 100 Yemenis will soon be sent home and put into a program aimed at rehabilitating jihadist militants, and the U.S. will have to find its own way to resolve the fate of those detainees it wants to keep under lock and key, possibly bringing them to the U.S. mainland to face trial. But what to do with the 60 detainees deemed harmless yet vulnerable to persecution in their home countries has been one of the knottiest problems in closing down Guantánamo. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...release last week of a human rights manifesto signed by hundreds of mainland scholars, lawyers and ex-officials has prompted a stern response from Chinese authorities who have jailed one signer and contacted dozens...
...Many of the parade participants came from mainland China and Hong Kong's large expatriate community. "I've lived in China for a long time, and I've never marched in a gay-pride parade, so I always had my sister march in Chicago on my behalf," said Scott Wilson, who works in Wanzhou province. Amnesty International's LGBT coordinator in Hong Kong, Medeleine Mok, said, "In mainland China, it's impossible to have a gay-pride march, so this is a very important day that has attracted many people to Hong Kong...
...Some Uyghurs want more rights but to remain a part of mainland China. Others want full independence and claim that Xinjiang province, in China’s far west, historically belongs to the Uyghurs and that China has no claim...