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10月12日，新疆维吾尔自治区乌鲁木齐市中级人民法院依法对乌鲁木齐“7·5”打砸抢烧严重暴力犯罪事件的三起重大犯罪案件7名被告人进行一审公开开庭审理并当庭宣判
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Hello, everyone. I’m Catherine Callaway at CNN Centre in Atlanta. Here is a look what’s happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Six people sentenced dead in China all charged with murder and other crimes in connection with July riots that killed two hundred people. A seventh people received a live sentence. All seven charges are Uigur residents, Muslims living in China’s Xinjiang Province. The riots in July were pumped by long-simmering resentment between minority Uigur and majority Han Chinese.
Gay activists want President Obama to deliver on campaign plug indiscrimination against the gays. Thousands turned out for a marching and a rally in Washington yesterday. They want president to end “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military. He promised to end it while speaking about the human rights campaign dinner in Washington this week. They are also pushing for equality for same sex couples.
A key week for health care reform, the Senate Finance Committee will vote tomorrow on its long awaited health care bill. The congressional budget office says the measure will cost an estimated eight hundred and twenty-nine billion dollars every ten years. Twenty-five million Americans will still be left uninsured.
“This is it, here I stand. In the light of the world, love is grand.”
That is the brand-new Michael Jackson’s song “This is it”. It was officially released midnight on its website. The song will be in a new Jackson movie and a new double CD coming up this month. Jackson’s brothers sing backup vocals.
There are just nineteen days left to pick up your Halloween cartoon, but instead being a zombie or vampire, why not trick or treat dressed up as Wall Street’s most infamous corn man. Thousands of Bernard Madoff masks have been shipped stores all across the country, but one company makes them says another famous face will probably be more popular and that is Michael Jackson.
Those are the headlines. Stay with CNN for more on these stories and other news of the day.
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