A320s a month on a final-assembly line in the northern port city of Tianjin.

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The bout was held in heavy rain, the fighters largely protected by the design of the arena, but it would have doused the spirits of the large British contingent in the 45, 000 crowd who had traveled to the northern German port city to cheer on their hero.

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Le Havre, itself, is a port city in the northern part of France, famous for its perplex mixture of cultures and music scene.

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The ring road around the western city of Caen was also blocked, and more barricades were set up near the northern port of Le Havre, and at a key entry point to the motorway from the north to Paris.

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Residents of the coastal city of Port Said, at the northern tip of the Suez Canal, pressed their general strike which entered its second week on Sunday.

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