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Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has claimed he was thrown out of Argentina by state officials after being pelted with rocks.

He said in a tweet that “thousands” of locals rounded on the Top Gear team in apparent protest at a number plate which appeared to refer to the 1982 Falklands war.

A Porsche used in filming had a registration plate that read H982 FKL.

Clarkson and team had been filming in South America for a Top Gear special.

On his return to the UK Clarkson tweeted: “The number plate WAS a coincidence. When it was pointed out to us, we changed it.

“Thousands chased crew to border. Someone could have been killed.”

He added: “This was not a jolly jape that went awry. For once, we did nothing wrong.”

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Haiti’s former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has died of a heart attack in the capital Port-au-Prince aged 63, official sources say.

Duvalier was just 19 when in 1971 he inherited the title of “president-for-life” from his father, the notorious Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier.

He was accused of corruption, human rights abuses and repression in his rule, which ended in a 1986 uprising.

After years of exile in France, he returned to Haiti in 2011.

His death was announced by Haiti’s health minister, and the ex-leader’s attorney Reynold Georges confirmed he died at home on Saturday.

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A mass grave has been found on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on 27 September, officials say.

It is not clear whether the bodies found in a pit are those of the missing students, who were last seen being forced into police vans.

The group had travelled to the area, in the state of Guerrero, to take part in a protest over teachers’ rights.

Police opened fire on their buses, killing six people.

Twenty-two police officers are being held in connection with the shooting.

Witnesses said that most of the survivors – all trainee teachers – were bundled into police vans before disappearing.

Some had gone into hiding and contacted their relatives after several days, still fearing for their lives.

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Reports that UK jihadists were involved in a prisoner swap between Islamic State (IS) and Turkey are “credible”, Whitehall officials have told the BBC.

The Times alleges that Shabazz Suleman, 18, and Hisham Folkard, 26, were among as many as 180 IS fighters traded for 46 Turkish hostages.

The Turks were taken prisoner from their country’s consulate in Mosul, Iraq, in June and released last month.

Officials confirmed Mr Suleman, of High Wycombe, had disappeared in Turkey.

The Foreign Office is providing consular assistance to his family but there has been no confirmation that he was one of the Turkish government-held prisoners.

“We are aware that a British national was reported missing in Turkey in 2014,” a spokesman said.

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A key ally of Russian anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny – Vladimir Ashurkov – has asked for political asylum in the UK.

Mr Ashurkov, 42, now wanted by Russian police, managed campaign funding for Navalny last year in the Moscow mayoral election. Navalny – currently under house arrest – failed to get elected.

Mr Ashurkov is accused of embezzlement.

In a tweet he said he wanted asylum because of “political persecution by the Russian authorities”.

Mr Ashurkov, a former banker, is executive director of Navalny’s anti-corruption fund.

In July the Russian Investigative Committee – a state body modelled on the American FBI – issued an arrest warrant for Mr Ashurkov. At the time Navalny dismissed allegations that Mr Ashurkov had stolen campaign contributions.

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