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Rome's First Female Mayor
Setback for ruling party in Italian local elections; Assange four years on; UN on DRC violence
The anti-establishment Five Star movement has made big gains in Italy, including in Rome where the first female mayor has been elected.
The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has now spent four years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London while trying to avoid extradition to Sweden and then the US, so how will he be coping mentally?
General Baillaud, the Deputy Force Commander of MONUSCO, the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo, talks about the fight against the rebels who have killed hundreds in Beni in the northeast of the country.
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