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BEIJING - The ashes of late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. A special plane carrying the ashes circled and flew slowly over the capital Beijing on Sunday morning, bidding farewell to the place where he had devoted himself to the cause of the Communist Party and the country, it said. Mr Jiang, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Nov 30 at the age of 96. After arriving in...
