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Xinjiang loosens some restrictions after lockdown protests

Residents line up for COVID-19 tests in Beijing on November 26, 2022. [AP Photo]

Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region opened up some neighborhoods in the capital of Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city's draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown that had lasted more than three months.

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