Isarel holds activists while UN and EU call for full inquiry into raid on aid flotilla (+ analysis); Japanese PM under pressure to resign; Was South Korean warship sinking part of Kim Jong-Il succession plans?; Al Qaeda's "chief operating officer" believed dead; and more
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World News Brief, Wednesday December 23
China rebuffs criticism of its Copenhagen behaviour; Support for Japanese government plummets; Israel on verge of prisoner swap; Taiwan begins new round of negotiations with China; and more
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