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Wars of independence

A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.

French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria

History

Like the US, France is navigating political disagreements about its history and their relationship to modern issues of race.

Accused war criminal Goran Hadzic captured

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