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      Abduction and murder in Chechnya: Rupert Wingfield Hayes on the death of a women dedicated to exposing brutality; Chris Hogg on China's economic bounce back and...

      Abduction and murder in Chechnya: Rupert Wingfield Hayes on the death of a women dedicated to exposing brutality; Chris Hogg on China's economic bounce back and the challenges it poses for the government in Beijing; Lucy Williamson on how the return of bombers to Jakarta was not entirely unexpected; Guy Delauney on why the closure of a Cambodia rubbish tip spells disaster for some boys and girls in Phnom Penh and Steve Gibbs agrees to act as a postman for a royal family which has lost its throne on the Mosquito Coast in Nicaragua.

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