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The Chinese military is holding six concurrent drills in various coastal regions this week, amid continued high tensions with the U.S. and its neighbors over territorial disputes in the contested South China Sea. On Sunday, the Guangdong bureau of China's Maritime Safety Administration announced a new round of drills off the country's southern coast that will run from Monday to Saturday, The South China Morning Post reported. The administration's bureau on the southern island of Hainan had already said Saturday that it would conduct a similar drill off its South China Sea coast at the same time. Chinese forces will...

Three children and a teacher have been stabbed to death in an attack on a kindergarten in eastern China. A man armed with a knife forced his way into the nursery at about 4pm yesterday by posing as a parent, as mothers and fathers were picking up their children, according to residents who live nearby. About 20 pupils and staff were injured, two of the children seriously, in the attack in a suburb of Zibo in Shandong province, eastern China. Police rushed some of the wounded from the Boshan District Experimental Kindergarten to hospital before ambulances had arrived. 'Three kids...