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China removed its defence minister on Tuesday, the second ousting of a senior leader in three months, raising questions about the stability of the leadership team around Chinese President Xi Jinping. General Li Shangfu, who has been absent from public view for two months, was dismissed as defence minister and state councillor, according to state media. China also announced that Qin Gang, who was removed as foreign minister in July, was stripped of his state councillor position.

Carolina Chia/ReutersChina has removed Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, state media reported Tuesday, after Li had been spent nearly two months out of public view. He is now the second senior Chinese official to disappear this year after Qin Gang was removed from his role as foreign minister in July without any explanation given for the decision. Li was last seen giving a speech in public on Aug. 29 and had only been appointed as defense minister in a March cabinet reshuffle. Li is currently un

Bhubaneswar: The second additional sessions judge, Bhubaneswar, Satyanarayan Patra, on Friday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the triple .

China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday skirted questions on the whereabouts of the country’s defense minister, amid mounting speculation the recently promoted general has been placed under investigation.

Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu abruptly pulled out of a meeting with Vietnamese defence leaders last week, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter said, amid questions about his more than two-weeks-long absence from public view. Li, 65, was due to attend an annual gathering on defence cooperation hosted by Vietnam on its border with China on Sept. 7-8 but the meeting was postponed after Beijing told Hanoi days before the event that the minister had a "health condition," two Vietnamese officials said. The sudden postponement of the meeting and the reasons cited by C...