China's Hu skips G8 to deal with Xinjiang riots

2009/07/07 23:50:15 @Reuters: International News

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence that has left at least 156 dead in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=AKLLOTT0BVs:pq7VH-DdmPE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=AKLLOTT0BVs:pq7VH-DdmPE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=AKLLOTT0BVs:pq7VH-DdmPE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=AKLLOTT0BVs:pq7VH-DdmPE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=AKLLOTT0BVs:pq7VH-DdmPE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/AKLLOTT0BVs" height="1" width="1"/
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