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An area of the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was taken after a shooting incident in Handlova, is cordoned off, in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries on Wednesday when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination that stunned his small Central European nation and drew a chorus of international condemnation.
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