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China Marks Day of Mourning for Landslide Victims (Updated)

Sunday marks a day of mourning for the more than 1200 victims of the landslide in Gansu, Reuters reports:Flags across the country flew at half mast, all public forms of entertainment have been suspended and front pages of the country’s main websites removed all color from their pages. The day began with thousands of people gathering in Beijing’s central Tiananmen Square, with the somber