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After 6 months stranded, Easter Islanders will return home

by Associated Press
| October 6, 2020 12:06 AM

RUSSELL, New Zealand (AP) — About 25 residents from remote Easter Island who have been stranded far from their loved ones for more than six months because of the coronavirus will finally be able to return home this week on a French military plane.

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