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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Complex culture clash as Venezuelan migrants flood into Chile + Navalny's penal colony, a Kremlin weapon to 'break' him + Poverty road in China drives some to riches, leaves others behind + Hollywood, history combine in Churchill art auction Chile-Venezuela-migration,SPECIAL REPORT COLCHANE, Chile Anyier sits at the side of the road gasping for breath as the beating sun and 3,700-meter (12,000-foot) altitude take their toll. It has been seven hours since she entered Chile from Bolivia -- the fifth border she has crossed since leaving Venezuela. "This has been the toughest: awful," she sighs. 1,000 words by Paula Bustamante. Pictures by MatÃn Bernetti. Video by Pablo Cozzaglio Russia-politics-prison-Navalny,FOCUS POKROV, Russia Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate. 800 words by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video. Graphic China-poverty-economy,FEATURE BAOJING, China At his village along a "poverty alleviation road" in Hunan province, farmer Liu Qingyou shares a booklet detailing how Xi Jinping's government has hoisted him and 100 million other Chinese from the breadline. 1,000 words by Beiyi Seow. Pictures and video by Noel Celis Lifestyle-Morocco-Churchill-painting-Hollywood,FOCUS RABAT Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, combined for a date at Christie's auction house in London. 500 words by Kaouthar Oudhiri. File picture. Video afp
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