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World Service,23 Dec 2021,49 mins

Tiananmen statue removed from University of Hong Kong

Newsday

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The Pillar of Shame, depicting a pile of corpses, was one of the few public reminders of the 1989 massacre. The United Nations has removed a substantial obstacle to providing aid to Afghanistan - but will it serve to prop up the Taliban? And our correspondent reports from one of the islands in the Philippines hardest hit by the typhoon.

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