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Former governor of China’s Xinjiang sentenced in bribery

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FILE - In this March 6, 2014, file photo, then China's northwestern Xinjiang region's Uighur governor Nur Bekri rubs his face, during the Xinjiang delegation's group discussion session as part of the annual National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China says the former governor of the restive Xinjiang region has been formally arrested for taking bribes. The nation's top prosecutor said the step was taken Tuesday, April 2, 2019, after the combined Communist Party-government investigatory body had completed its work. Bekri has already been expelled from the party. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

China formally arrests Xinjiang ex-governor in bribery case

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FILE - In this March 23, 2017 file photo, China's Energy Minister Nur Bekri, right, shakes hands with Sweden's Minister for Energy Ibrahim Baylan at the Swedish Government headquarters Rosenbad in Stockholm. The head of China's energy planning agency has been expelled from the country's ruling Communist Party and dismissed from his posts, China's disciplinary committee announced Saturday, March 16, 2019. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Head of Chinese energy agency expelled from Communist Party

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