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A state-of-the-art British fighter jet that has been stuck at an Indian airport for more than five weeks is set…
Read MorePowerful Ecuador drug lord ‘Fito’ extradited to US
The powerful Ecuadorean gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug…
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