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Sun Yuanqi, 92, from Shandong province, who was forced to work in Japan during World War II, displays a scar that was caused when he was struck by a gunstock. Guo Xulei / Xinhua

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Terracotta Warrior figures rise out of the waters of Lake Constance at the Bregenz Festival's lake stage, where Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot opened the monthlong celebration of the performing arts on Wednesday. The stage set featured a giant structure based on the Great Wall.  Qian Yi / Xinhua

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President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, welcome visiting New Zealand Governor-General Jerry Mateparae and his wife in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.  Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

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People carry the Cuban flag on Monday outside the Cuban embassy in Washington before it reopened with an official ceremony, as the US and Cuba ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations.  Gary Cameron / Reuters

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Automatic challenge
Robots compete in a soccermatch on Sunday as part of the 19th RoboCup in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province. The five-day annual contest includes soccermatches and contests for robots programmed for rescues and services in the home. Zhang Duan / Xinhua   See story > p3

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Premier Li Keqiang greets Shotaro Yachi, visiting head of Japan's National Security Council, in Beijing on Friday.    Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

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Jin Liqun (left), secretary-general of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's Multilateral Interim Secretariat and China's nominee for president of the bank, holds talks with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Thursday.  Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

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Yasukazu Hamada (second from right), chairman of the lower house committee that approved the bills, is surrounded by opposition lawmakers after the vote on Wednesday. If the bills become law, Japanese troops will be able to fight abroad. 
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Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (center) line up with representatives of five world powers at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, after finalizing a nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday. 
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Youngsters enjoy a watermelon-eating contest hosted by their neighborhood community in Handan, Hebei province, to help them keep cool in the heat wave. A tiger takes a shower at Jinan Zoo in Shandong province, where temperatures reached 38 C. (Above) Hao Qunying / for China Daily  (Down) Provided to China Daily

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The streets of Cheji in Yuyao, Zhejiang province, lie submerged after the village was engulfed by floodwaters from the Yaojiang River amid powerful storms triggered by the approach of Typhoon Chanhom, which made landfall on Saturday.
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