Chinese paramilitary police in riot gear ride in trucks along a main street leading to the end of the city occupied by ethnic Uighurs in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 8, 2009. Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence that has left at least 156 dead in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

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