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Photojournalist Christina Assi on Sunday carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honour journalists wounded and killed in the field. She and five others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon last October. The attack killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah. Assi was severely wounded and had part of her right leg amputated. AFP videographer Dylan Collins, also wounded in the Israeli attack, pushed Assi’s wheelchair as she carried the torch across the suburb of Vincennes Sunday. Their colleagues from the press agency and hundreds of spectators cheered them on. “I wish Issam was h…

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