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Not least because as she attacked China and the World Health Organization, defended Michael Flynn and dismissed questions about allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump, she flirted, as British hacks of a certain vintage might put it, with being a tad economical with the �����ٳܲ�������é.

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But the privately owned Actualité news site says a man was killed by a police pick-up truck as the procession drove through Kinshasa's Limete neighbourhood - a stronghold of the veteran leader.