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BAMIYAN: Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan’s rugged central highlands, one of the country’s famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return on Tuesday night as a three-dimensional projection filled the alcove that hosted the statue for centuries. The projection topped off a day commemorating the des­t­ruction of the two famous Buddha statues by the Tali­ban in March …

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