BEIJING — Authorities in a town near the southern metropolis of Guangzhou arrested 25 people after a dispute between street vendors and security guards grew into a confrontation with bottle-and-brick throwing onlookers, state news agencies reported Sunday. The clash, in Xintang, in south coastal China, was the latest in a series of violent protests that have struck Chinese cities in recent days. A
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