{"id":5085,"date":"2009-07-06T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2009-07-06T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:56:05","slug":"world-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links\/5085\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: Ethnic Violence in China, U.S. and Russia Sign Arms Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-standing ethnic tensions between the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group, and the majority Han Chinese cause the <a id=\"xzic\" title=\"largest ethnic clash in China since March of 2008.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/07\/world\/asia\/07china.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\">largest ethnic clash in China since March of 2008.<\/a> At least <a id=\"r5ua\" title=\"At least 140 people are killed and at least 800 are injured\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2009-07\/06\/content_8384017.htm\">140 people are killed and at least 800 are injured<\/a> after a riot on Sunday by about 1,000 Uighurs in a large market area in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang Public Security Department reports the <a id=\"r.og\" title=\"arrests of several hundred riot participants\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/06\/china.uyghur.protest\/index.html\">arrests of several hundred riot participants<\/a> and witnesses describe an increase in security measures in downtown Urumqi.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a <a id=\"tj9a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Joint-Statement-by-Dmitry-A-Medvedev-President-of-the-Russian-Federation-and-Barack-Obama-President-of-the-United-States-of-America-on-Missile-Defense-Issues\/\">joint statement<\/a> that supports a &#8220;<a id=\"az2t\" title=\"new, comprehensive, legally binding agreement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/FACT-SHEET-The-Joint-Understanding-for-the-START-Follow-on-Treaty\/\">new, comprehensive, legally binding agreement<\/a> on reducing and limiting strategic  offensive arms to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which  expires on December 5, 2009.&#8221; The agreement requires both countries to <a id=\"yqtu\" title=\"reduce their strategic warheads to between 1,500 to 1,675\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/07\/06\/obama.russia\/index.html\">reduce their strategic warheads to between 1,500 to 1,675<\/a> and warhead-delivering missiles to between 500 and 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Honduran authorities prevent ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, traveling from Washington with <a id=\"xrhl\" title=\"United Nations General Assembly president Miguel d\u2019Escoto Brockmann and a few advisers.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/06\/world\/americas\/06honduras.html?ref=world\">United Nations General Assembly president Miguel d\u2019Escoto Brockmann and a few advisers,<\/a> from landing in the capital of Teguicigalpa. Zelaya lands in the capital city of El Salvador, San Salvador, after a stop in Managua, Nicaragua, to refuel and meet with <a id=\"bccn\" title=\"leftist allies Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/07\/06\/honduras.political.turmoil\/index.html\">allies Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez<\/a>. One Zelaya supporter is killed and at least eight people are injured in a confrontation with national soldiers on the tarmac in Tegucigalpa while awaiting the former president&#8217;s arrival, according to rescue officials.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"DetaildSuammary\">Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the head of Iran&#8217;s judiciary, <a id=\"u1jx\" title=\"calls for a suppression of Iranian television and Internet media that is critical of the government\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/07\/20097515223923231.html\">calls for a suppression of Iranian television and Internet media that is critical of the government<\/a>. Iranian state television quotes <span class=\"DetaildSuammary\"><span class=\"DetaildSuammary\">Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi as saying, in an address to the judiciary, &#8220;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"DetaildSuammary\">[t]hose who co-operate with such websites and television channels will face prosecution.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara dies at the age of 93. He is <a id=\"gnb3\" title=\"known mostly for his role in leading the U.S. into war with Vietnam,\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/07\/us\/07mcnamara.html?ref=world\">known mostly for his role in leading the U.S. into war with Vietnam<\/a>. He also directed hundreds of military missions from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. 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