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Algeria marked the 70th anniversary of the launch of its war for independence from France with a military parade on Friday, as relations with their former colonial ruler sour again. Military jets soared over the shimmering bay of Algiers, leaving contrails against the blue sky, as columns of troops marched past the city’s largest mosque, drawing applause from thousands of spectators. Algeria’s bloody eight-year war for independence after more than a century of French rule began on November 1, 1954. Guerrillas from the National Liberation Front (FLN) mounted attacks on government buildings, lea…