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Arrests at Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily

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Police arrested senior staff on suspicion of violating the national security law

The paper broadcasted live footage of the raid on its Facebook account.

Can the pro-democracy Hong Kong paper survive these latest arrests?  Mark Simon is an advisor to Jimmy Lai, the jailed media mogul who owns the paper.

In a landmark in China's space programme three astronauts are starting a three-month space mission - we find out the latest. 

And what does the return home today of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, after his acquittal at the ICC for crimes against humanity during the post-election violence in 2011, mean for the country?

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