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The restaurant fire in Liaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, is the latest in a spate of similar incidents across the country in recent years.
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Claudia Mo, pro-democracy lawmaker, holds a yellow umbrella as she is surrounded by members of the media while on her way to submit her resignation letter to the president of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, November 12, 2020.
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Security personnel patrol a street after militants indiscriminately opened fire on tourists near Pahalgam in Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Beijing has rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called him recently.
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Chinese coast guard offices display their national flag on a tiny sandbar in the disputed Sandy Cay in April, 2025.
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China and Philippines unfurl competing flags on disputed South China Sea sandbars, reviving tensions
Mourners gather to pay their homage to the mortal remains of slain, left to right, Atul Mone, Sanjay Lele, Hemant Joshi, who were killed by gunmen in Kashmir's Pahalgam, after their bodies arrived for funeral in Dombivali on April 23, 2025. Indian security forces in Kashmir carried out a major manhunt on April 23, a day after gunmen opened fire on tourists killing 26 people in the region's deadliest attack on civilians since 2000.
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An ambulance carrying the bodies of tourists killed in a suspected militant attack near Pahalgam, in Indian controlled Kashmir, arrive at the police control room in Srinagar, on Wednesday.
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Dozens killed as gunmen massacre tourists in Kashmir beauty spot
The scene after a car plowed into a crowd of people outside a school in Jinhua in the province of Zhejiang, China, on Wednesday.
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