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Colonial king's statue removed in Belgium after protests
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A statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II, under whose reign millions of people were killed in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been removed from the city of Antwerp following Black Lives Matter protests.
And we have reaction to the sudden death of Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza.
(Photo: The statue of King Leopold II in Antwerp. Credit: Getty Images)
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