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China executed three accused separatists on Tuesday for their role in an attack that killed 31 people at a train station in the southwest last year, a court said. The government has said the attack, in the southwestern city of Kunming, was carried out by knife-wielding separatists from the far western region of Xinjiang, which is strategically located on the borders of central Asia. The three men who were executed-Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad- were sentenced to death in September after being convicted of homicide and leading a terrorist organization, the Kunming Interm stanley cup ediate People s Court said. A higher court later upheld the sentence, the offi stanley cup cial Xinhua news agency reported. Police shot four other assailants dead during the knife attack, which injured 141 people on March 1, 2014. Xinjiang, home to the muslim Uighur minority group, has been plagued by unrest in recent years. Some Uighurs have chafed under Chinese restrictions on their culture and religion. Rights groups have expressed concern about executions and mass-sentencings carried out regularly since an upswing in violence blamed on Xinjiang militants took plac stanley cup e last year. Another female attacker, Patigul Tohti, who was pregnant when she was arrested, received a life sentence, Xinhua said. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,c Uulc Zimbabwe bans all NGO field operations
World powers racked up the pressure on Iran ahead of crucial nuclear talks on Thursday, amid growing concern about the covert build up of Tehran s nuclear programme. HT Image European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana will conduct the talks with the top Iranian nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, along with senior officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States in the Swiss city of Geneva. Solana stressed ahead of the meeting, the first of its kind for 14 months, that the five permanent powers P5 in the UN Security Council and German stanley cup y wanted guar yeezy antees from Tehran on the civilian nature of its nuclear ambitions. For the moment we have not obtained the objective of guarantees that the project is only peaceful, Solana said on the sidelines of an EU defence meeting. He called the talks a test of Iran s intentions, as the powers maintained demands for a freeze in Iran s nuclear enrichment in return for a freeze in sanctions. I say to Iran as they face a crucial date this week; join the international community now or face isolation, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday. Iran has insisted for years that it has a right to civilian nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and to make en af1 riched fuel for power plants -- although its first Russian-built and long-delayed nuclear plant is yet to come on line. But its announcement last week of the ongoing construction of another uranium enrichment plant, underground near the