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Detention and Deletion Follow Beijing Embassy Blast

At around 1pm on Thursday, an explosive device was detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing. The Washington Post’s Danielle Paquette and Emily Rauhala report: As the crowd scattered, police quickly apprehended the suspect, whom they identified as a man from Inner Mongolia with the last name Jiang. The blast hurt his hand, authorities said. […] But less than an hour later, the scene was largely clear and the embassy was again open for business. More than a hundred