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Japanese men load frozen tuna from a cold room on to carts after a tuna auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Japan says it will not comply if a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna is imposed. -- PHOTO: AP




View of a collapsed bridge on the expressway A-5, some 150 km south of Santiago. Chile said on Thursday it was reviewing the official death toll of Saturday's massive quake and tsunami, which currently stands at 802, because in some places the missing were counted as dead. Reconstruction in Chile will take at least three years, President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday, as she acknowledged the country would need international aid. -- PHOTO: AFP




Chinese ethnic minority delegates pose for photographers after arriving for the opening session of the nine-day National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. -- PHOTO: AFP