Other important world stories saw the head of the Israeli secret service forced to resign after a bungled assassination attempt and the top bureaucrat in the Frenchisland of Corsica murdered by separatists.
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Mr Davies is believed to have arrived on the French governed island on 7 November 2011.
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By the dawn of the 21st century, with only a tiny population of birds left on the remote French Polynesian island of Rimatara, it was decided to reintroduce the endangered lorikeet on Atiu.