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Papua New Guinea PM accuses Biden of ‘loose talk’ after claim uncle was eaten by cannibal

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Papua New Guinea’s prime minister James Marape has accused president Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that his uncle was eaten by “cannibals” there during the Second World War.

The president spoke at a Pennsylvania war memorial last week about his Army Air Corps aviator

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