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Today tomatoes and onions seized. The French Foreign Legion liberates a jihadi vegetable patch in Mali. It's official, the

Angolan capital Luanda, is the most expensive city on earth, no consolation to

its people, most of whom live in extreme poverty.

What's the point of the Swiss Army?

Mums there wonder why their sons still have to do national service.

And deep gloom in Italy, as a sporting way of life with its roots back in

Roman times comes to an end. British troops have arrived in Mali. They're part of an EU force which will help train

local soldiers who are fighting Islamic militants. The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond

insists they won't be involved in combat operations.

The training they'll be doing there, he says, will help to restore order as well as denying

terrorists a safe haven.

French soldiers remain at the sharp end of this operation in the north of the country.

Torma Fessie's been out in the Sahara Desert looking for insurgents with the French Foreign

Legion.

The helicopter flew with its lights off in the dead of night.

When we finally landed, we could feel the sharp rocks under our boots, but still couldn't

see anything.

It felt like we were cut off from the rest of the world.

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