The sun began to peek through the clouds in Beijing on Saturday, after the Olympic host fended off wet weather for the Games' eye-popping opening ceremony by firing a volley of rain dispersal rockets into the skies.
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FOR months, Chinese authorities have been publicising the threat from separatist militants in the northwest region of Xinjiang, saying members of its Muslim, Uighur minority were bent on disrupting the Beijing Olympics.
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