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Chinese state media says that 129 people have been killed and more than 800 hurt in violence in the country's western Xinjiang region.

A judiciary official says tribunals will process hundreds of 'rioters' and 'thugs' caught in security sweeps during the unrest after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected president.

Iran's judiciary will set up a special court to try protesters arrested in the surge of civil unrest since the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a judiciary official said on state television, as the government continues its crackdown aimed at crushing its greatest domestic challenge in 30 years.
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India's prime minister appealed for calm as riots spread to several northern Indian cities to protest a deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Austria.

May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece on Friday while thousands angry at the government's responses to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France.

Inmates at a privately run federal prison in western Texas started a riot and set at least one fire Saturday for the second time in less than two months, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

While much of the world celebrated the arrival of the new American president on Tuesday, some regions saw angry protests.