Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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US hands Bagram prison back to Afghanistan
Oct 11, 2012
The United States has formally handed control to Afghanistan of more than 3,000 detainees at the controversial Bagram prison, north of the Afghan capital Kabul. Questions remain over the fate of the inmates, who include Taliban fighters, 50 foreigners not covered by the agreement, and hundreds of Afghans arrested since the transfer deal was signed on March 9.
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