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Three American suspects in what the Congolese army called an attempted coup in Kinshasa last month committed acts “punishable by death”, a court heard on Friday as their trial opened.
Marcel Malanga and Taylor Christian Thomson, both 21, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun are among 53 defendants in