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The former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. South Korea has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation system after its worst ever air disaster. Moldova’s separatist region is cutting gas consumption as it prepares for an end to Russian natural gas supplies.

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