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A woman carries a child in her arms as she walks on a curb above floodwaters in Xinxiang in central China’s Henan Province, Monday, July 26, 2021. Record rain in Xinxiang last week left the produce and seafood market soaked in water. Dozens of people died in the floods that immersed large swaths of central China’s Henan province in water. (AP Photo/Dake Kang) XBEJ110 XBEJ110

July 29, 2021 at 4:43 am

China flooding brought fear, then washed away livelihoods VIEW

The torrent of rain last week burst dams and collapsed bridges, immersing large swaths of China's Henan province in water. In the city of Zhengzhou,...

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July 27, 2021 at 3:42 am

Residents mourn drowned subway riders in central China VIEW

ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) — Residents on Tuesday laid bouquet after bouquet, the neatly tied yellow and white flowers standing on end, outside an entrance to...

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July 25, 2021 at 1:46 am

China sends supplies to flooded area, rebuilds barriers

XINXIANG, China (AP) — Trucks carrying water and food on Sunday streamed into a Chinese city hit hard by flooding that killed at least 63...

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July 23, 2021 at 11:14 pm

Man in central China survives 3 days in flooded garage VIEW

ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) — A man in central China was rescued after spending three days trapped in a flooded underground garage following torrential rains, while...

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July 21, 2021 at 10:29 pm

Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center VIEW

DABANCHENG, China (AP) — The Uyghur inmates sat in uniform rows with their legs crossed in lotus position and their backs ramrod straight, numbered and...

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July 21, 2021 at 10:24 pm

Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center VIEW

DABANCHENG, China (AP) — The Uyghur inmates sat in uniform rows with their legs crossed in lotus position and their backs ramrod straight, numbered and...

Nation & World

July 1, 2021 at 10:31 pm

Experts question if WHO should lead pandemic origins probe

BEIJING (AP) — As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe of how the coronavirus pandemic started, an...

Fan Baolin, who served 17 years in prison and says he sneaked out of China last year to escape constant surveillance, poses during an interview in an undisclosed location and on an undisclosed date. The ruling Communist Partyâ€™s deadly 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests never ended for Fan and others who still are watched by the party three decades later in an effort to erase the public memory of the protests. (AP photo) BKWS303 BKWS303

June 3, 2021 at 3:42 am

‘Tracked for life’: China relentless in erasing Tiananmen VIEW

Party leaders have imprisoned or driven activists into exile and largely succeeded in ensuring the young know little of June 4, 1989. Still, they are...

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May 24, 2021 at 9:11 pm

Factory boss defiant as sanctions bite in China’s Xinjiang VIEW

AKSU, China (AP) — A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking...

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May 19, 2021 at 9:01 pm

Chinese authorities order video denials by Uyghurs of abuses

URUMQI, China (AP) — China has highlighted an unlikely series of videos this year in which Uyghur men and women deny U.S. charges that Beijing...

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