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China hosts Silk Road summit in shadow of N.Korea missile
China touted on Sunday its new Silk Road as "a project of the century" at a summit highlighting its growing leadership on globalisation, but a North Korean missile test threatened to overshadow the event. President Xi Jinping was preparing to host leaders from 29 nations for the two-day summit in Beijing when US and South Korean military officials confirmed that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile. Delegations from North Korea and the United States were expected at the forum, though not their leaders.
Sister: Weakened 'Sandra Bland Act' in Texas 'gut-wrenching'
The sister of Sandra Bland says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after her sibling and are now pushing a weakened compromise that "painfully misses the mark."
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