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- Paramilitary chief returns to Colombia to face charges
- Dozens of critically ill evacuated from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region
- Brazil expels Venezuela's top diplomat amid tensions
- India on track to become fifth-largest economy in 2018
- Thousands protest after two brothers die in Morocco's 'mines of death'
- Saudi Arabia's first international chess tournament mired in controversy
- Jacques Brunel named new coach of France's national rugby team
- Putin officially submits candidacy for fourth term in office
- Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels begin first prisoner exchange of the year
- 'Homemade explosive' injures at least 10 at Saint Petersburg market
- Liberians hopeful of first democratic handover since 1944
- Saudi chess tournament mired in controversy
- Thousands protest against Morocco's coal 'mines of death'
- Sick evacuated from Eastern Ghouta in deal between aid agencies and Assad forces
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