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China-Vietnam Border War 1979

Former communist allies China and Vietnam fought a short but bloody war in 1979. Also this week, the man who proved the Turin Shroud was a fake.

Former communist allies China and Vietnam fought a short but bloody war in 1979, part of a wider regional power struggle. Also this week; the man who proved the Turin Shroud was a fake, the emotional trauma of caring for someone dying of CJD and the hellish lives of the men who tunnelled under no-man's land in World War One.

Photo: Chinese prisoners of war held by Vietnamese conscripts in the 1979 border war. (Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 21 Mar 2016 04:06GMT

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