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Chinese and North Korean National flags on the Chinese/North Korean border in the town of Tu Men in China's northeast Jilin province 12 October 2006
Chinese internet users react angrily to North Korea's detention and alleged ill-treatment of 28 Chinese fishermen.

China's internet users react to the departure of blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family, who are now in the United States
Women football fans in Iran are hoping to use the Asian Under-16 Championship in Tehran to return to the terraces.
Jean-Marc Ayrault, named prime minister by newly-inaugurated French President Francois Hollande, is Mayor of Nantes and a qualified German teacher

Iranian political cartoonists and bloggers rally round a colleague who has been sentenced to lashes for a caricature of an MP.



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