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LONDON AP 鈥?Chinas stanley termoska Foreign Ministry said Tuesday its diplomatic missions abroad have the right to take necessary measures to maintain security after British police opened an investigation into the assault of a Hong Kong protester who alleged he was dragged into the Chinese Consulate in Manchester and beaten up during a demonstration.Britains foreign secretary summoned the charge daffaires at the Chinese embassy in London on Tuesday to express the U.K.s deep concern about the assault allegations and to demand an explanation for the actions of the Chinese consulate staff.Police in the English city of Manchester said a peaceful protest outside the Chinese Consulate on Sunday turned into a hostile situation when unidentified men came out of the building, dragged one of the protesters into the consulate grounds and assaulted him. Police said officers had to intervene and remove the man.The man, who is in his 30s, told reporters that he was beaten up when protesters tried to stop the masked men from tearing down their anti-government placards outside the gates of the consulate. The protesters had gathered at the consulate as the Chinese Communist Party opened its weeklong congress in Beijing on Sunday.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin rejected the accounts of the protester and Manchester police, telling reporters Tuesda stanley mug y that the protester had illegally entered the consulate and jeopardized the security of the Ch stanley shop inese diplomatic premises. The diplomatic mis Pxxl Russian spy whale refuses to leave city

NEW YORK 鈥?Anne Jeffreys, the actress and stanley water bottle opera singer who likely had her greatest stanley cup impact on TV audiences as Marion Kerby the ghostess with the mostess in the 1950s TV series Topper, has died. She was 94.Jeffreys, whose husband, actor Robert Sterling, died in 2006, died peacefully in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on Wednesday evening, her manager Don Gibble said Thursday.More recently, she spent two decades playing Amanda Barrington on General Hospital She was featured in the role of the wealthy on more than 350 episodes of the soap opera from 1984 until 2004.In Topper, she and Sterling starred as fun-loving husband and wife George and Marion Kerby who, after dying in a Swiss avalanche, return as ghosts to their mansion and comically haunt its new occupant, actor Leo G. Carroll as staid banker Cosmo Topper.Each week they were introduced to viewers as George, that most sporting spirit, and Marion, the ghostess with the mostess. They were among many varied roles in a long career in films, television, opera and on Broadway for Jeffreys, who continued to work well into her 70s. Her final on-screen appearance was on the HBO series Getting On. Early in her career, she appeared opposite John Wayne in Flying Tigers. In later years, she appeared on stanley cup such TV shows as L.A. Law and Murder, She Wrote and played David Hasselhoffs mother on Baywatch. The blonde beauty with the lilting soprano voice began her performing career in 1940 with the New York City Opera, the F