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Man Sentenced to Death After Fatal Factory Brawl in South China

Xiao Jianhua, the man charged with instigating the toy factory brawl in Shaoguan, Guangdong that led to the July 5 Xinjiang riots, has been sentenced to death. Ben Blanchard of Reuters reports: A court in southern China has handed out a death sentence to a man involved in a brawl in July blamed for being the trigger to deadly riots in the restive far western region of Xinjiang. State media said the