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Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has been airlifted from a Banská Bystrica hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt in the central town of Handlová. Fico was transported early on Thursday to his home in Bratislava, where he will receive nursing care, reports say. The Slovakian PM was shot in the abdomen at close range as he greeted supporters in Handlová earlier this month. Videos showed him approach people gathered at barricades and reach out to shake hands as a man stepped forward, extended his arm and fired five rounds before being tackled and arrested. Fic…

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