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30/06/2011
UK strikes, taking the grunt out of tennis, French hostages released
- Britain is facing one of its biggest strikes in years as public sector workers stage industrial action against proposed changes to their pensions - a fifth of all employees are expected to stop work
- two French journalists kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan eighteen months ago have returned home following their release from captivity on Wednesday
- taking the grunts out of Wimbledon - the new 大象传媒 technology that lets television viewers control separate sounds
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