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China hosts Silk Road summit in shadow of N.Korea missile
China touted on Sunday its new Silk Road as "a project of the century" at a summit highlighting its growing leadership on globalisation, but a North Korean missile test threatened to overshadow the event. President Xi Jinping was preparing to host leaders from 29 nations for the two-day summit in Beijing when US and South Korean military officials confirmed that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile. Delegations from North Korea and the United States were expected at the forum, though not their leaders.
Sister: Weakened 'Sandra Bland Act' in Texas 'gut-wrenching'
The sister of Sandra Bland says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that "painfully misses the mark."
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Sister: Weakened 'Sandra Bland Act' in Texas 'gut-wrenching'
The sister of Sandra Bland says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that "painfully misses the mark."
West Bank votes in polls underlining Palestinian split
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip. The West Bank and Gaza have not participated in an election together since 2006, when Hamas swept Palestinian parliamentary polls, sparking a conflict that led to near civil war in Gaza the following year.
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