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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

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Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas sits in the living room of his home in Santa Clara, central Cuba. Farinas began a hunger strike at his home on Feb 23, 2010, in solidarity with fellow dissident Orlando Zapata who died the same day of his own hunger strike. The Cuban Human Rights Commission said the a total of five dissidents, including Farinas, are fasting for the freedom of political prisoners. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




The conductor of a military band performs ahead of the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. -- PHOTO: REUTERS