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Jimmy Carter, a former American president, died aged 100.

Mr. Carter, once a peanut farmer, served from 1977 to 1981. He presided over the Camp David Accords between Egypt

and Israel in 1978, among other foreign policy achievements. But his single term in the White

House was rocky. After his presidency, he became an effective advocate for peace and democracy

through his Carter Center, set up in

1982. Mr. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. A plane crash killed 179 people in South Korea.

The aeroplane operated by Jeju Air, a South Korean carrier, burst into flames when it hit a wall while landing at Muon International Airport in the country's south.

Two crew members survived South Korea's worst domestic aviation disaster. The government confirmed that the pilot had been warned of bird strike risks three minutes before the crash.

Ahmed al-Shara, the rebel commander who led the offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria,

said that the country might not hold elections for four years.

In an interview with Al-Arabiya, a news outlet, Mr. Shirah said that rewriting the

Constitution could take two or three years and argued that Donald Trump's incoming administration

should lift sanctions against Syria automatically. Thousands of Georgians gathered to protest during

the inauguration of the new president.

Mikhail Cavalashvili, a footballer turned hard-right populist, is allied with Georgian Dream,

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