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A boy takes part in an anti-nuclear sit-in outside the presidential office in Taipei on Saturday. Hundreds of activists attended the event to demand the government halt construction of a controversial new nuclear power plant. | REUTERS
A boy takes part in an anti-nuclear sit-in outside the presidential office in Taipei on Saturday. Hundreds of activists attended the event to demand the government halt construction of a controversial new nuclear power plant. | REUTERS
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