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WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The White House denied on Monday the saying by NBC, a major television network in the United States, that Iraq has fallen into a civil war. The situation in Iraq is serious, but neither U.S. President George W. Bush nor Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki believe Iraq conflict is a civil war, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. In its news program on Monday, NBC, sharing a popular viewpoint, branded the Iraq conflict a civil ...

JINAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- More than 759,230 suspects were convicted in China in the January-November period last year, while a relatively small number -- 1,464 people -- were found innocent, according to supreme court statistics released on Saturday. The convicted number rose 4.3 percent from the same period in 2005, and crime cases handled in courts also grew to 593,020, 1.6percent higher than a year before, the official statistics shows. Among the convicts, 276,479 people comm...