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| Senior Chinese diplomat sacked for corruption |
| Friday, January 02, 2015 4:21 AM | |
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese diplomat has been sacked and is under investigation for suspected corruption, the foreign ministry said on Friday, the first time a top diplomat has fallen victim to a sweeping campaign against graft. Zhang Kunsheng is no long an assistant foreign minister as he was "suspected of violating discipline and is being investigated", the ministry said in a brief statement, using the usual euphemism for corruption. It provided no other details. ... |
| New Year rings in with tightened NYC security, California arrests |
| Friday, January 02, 2015 1:54 AM | |
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 By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roughly 1 million revelers rang in the new year at New York's Times Square under unusually tight security for the nation's biggest New Year's Eve celebration, while at least 29 protesters were arrested in California after violence broke out at a march against police brutality. While security is always tight in Times Square on New Year's Eve, particularly since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, extra precautions were put in place on Wednesday to prevent violence at the famed midtown Manhattan crossroads. ...
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