Muslim Uighers, one  of China’s ethnic minorities, were quelled by Chinese police after nearly a thousand Uigher demonstrators flooded the streets in a defiant protest against the Chinese government in the Xinjiang region of China.

The Uighers settlement in Xinjiang of 8 million citizens prefer to be recognized as Eastern Turkestan but, China openly denounced the Uighers’ plea for independence and has labeled them as terrorists after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 and repeatedly attempts decimating Uigher cultural. Uighers are light skinned and haired from a mixture of 50% Caucasian and 50% East Asian ancestry.The Uigher protesters were subdued by Han Chinese riot police armed with tear gas and batons. Multiple arrests were made and three Han Chinese were killed.

“How can one accept the legitimacy of the election just because the Guardian Council says so? Can one say that the government born out of the infringements is a legitimate one,” the Assembly of Qom Scholars and Researchers said. The clerics revealed that the Guardian Council had ignored Mir Houssein Moussavi’s complaints and had compelled fellow clerics to support the Council’s illegitimate decision to officially declare Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency.

–Francis Bea

131,000 U.S. troops will be stationed outside of Baghdad in accordance with Iraqi officials while a minimal number of U.S. forces will remain in the cities to continue the training of Iraqi soldiers and police forces, numbering approximately 750,000. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, expressed his confidence in the U.S. trained Iraq forces of keeping Baghdad safe from the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda. “The U.S. forces, in addition to being, I think, the best fighting forces, are also some of the best trainers in the world, and we’ve worked very hard with the Iraqi forces, and we think they are ready for this,” Hill said.

The pull out comes after six civilians were killed in Baghdad yesterday from two sepearte car bombings by insurgents.

Due to President Obama’s withdrawl plan, most of the remaining American troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of August 2010 and all American forces will withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Ahmadinejad purportedly won the election with 63% of the vote as opposed to his opponent Mir-Houssein Mousavi who only won 35% of the votes. The turnout for the election was approximately 85% – an unprecedented figure compared to the 2005 election of 62%.

The Honduran President, Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a military coup that met little resistance. The Honduran Congress instated Roberto Micheletti, head of Congress, on Sunday but abroad, Micheletti was not recognized as the new president.

The Honduran Congress saw Zelaya as a threat to Honduras as he instigated internal divisions and conflict. The majority saw a coup as befitting for his removal. Not surprisingly, the act was met with little opposition, the transition was swift and saw few (if at all) instances of opposition by the general public.

The U.N. Secretary-General denounced the coup and planned a discussion for Monday afternoon. U.S. President Barack Obama also expressed his concern and saw it as an attack on democracy.

The Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas was detained.

On Sunday, protests continued as thousands flooded into Ghoba mosque and protested in a planned silent demonstration incited by Mir-Hossein Moussavi.

Moussavi was granted a permit to hold the demonstrations that doubled as, honoring Mohammad Beheshti, an instigator of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and honoring the protesters who died during demonstrations.

In the government’s continued efforts to crack down on the opposition, nine employees of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran were taken into custody and five were released.Iran had rebuked accusations that its relationship with the purportedly protest fueling nations of Britian, the U.S. and Israel would be further degenerating.

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has begun an inquiry into Neda Agha-Soltan’s gruesome and publicised death and accused his opponents of killing Neda for political purposes. Earlier, the CIA was accused to have been the key player in killing Neda.

The estimated figures were based on an aggregation of suveys, by health officials, mathematically calcuated by computer based modeling.

The Center for Disease Control officially reported 28,000 H1N1 cases to date in the U.S. and 127 resulting deaths. The majority of H1N1 cases will go unreported as the common flu.The H1N1 flu is statistically a greater danger to adults and more commonly discovered in children. The average age of H1N1 victims is 12-years-old, while the average age of reported H1N1 related deaths was 37, according to Finelli.

A federal official overseeing vaccine manufacturing, Robin Robinson, announced that a H1N1 vaccine is in production. 60 million H1N1 vaccines have been ordered and will be ready for distribution as early as this September.

North Korean officials threatened a, “fire shower of nuclear retaliation.” They, “will never give up its nuclear deterrent… and will futher strenghten it,” North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun added.

The threats by North Korea come after their government was scheduled to attack Hawaii (4,500 miles from North Korea) with a 4,000 mile range missile on July 4. Stepping up efforts to rebuff the treats on the U.S., North Korea closed the Sea of Japan purported short range and an intercontinential missile test from June 25 to July 10, reported Japan’s Maritime Safety Agency (MSA).North Korean ship purported to carry nuclear weapons clears Taiwan Straights; approaches Hong Kong

The North Korean ship, Kang Nam, believed to be carrying missiles or arms to Myanmar had passed the Taiwan Straits.

US defense officials released conflicting reports of the contents within the Kang Nam, indicating cargo of nuclear weapons or illegal conventional munitions. North Korea is known to have traded illegal weapons for food.