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PARIS: French aid worker Sophie Petronin was reunited with her family on home soil on Friday, a day after being freed by insurgents in Mali who abducted the 75-year-old on Christmas eve nearly four years ago. President Emmanuel Macron and other officials greeted Petronin, France’s last known citizen to be held hostage anywhere in the world, as she stepped off …

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