In 1990, Nelson Mandela arrived in Zambia on his first foreign trip since his release from 27 years in South African jails.

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But although Davies is being kept in Wales camp, coach Warren Gatland has agreed to release four other Scarlets players for their trip to Dublin.

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Clinton, 63, jumped back onto the world stage last year with an unannounced trip to North Korea on a mission to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American journalists.

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Lenard had earlier granted the 56-year-old leave to travel to Cuba to attend a memorial for his father, the second trip home he had been allowed to make since his release in 2011.

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Ahead of the three-day trip, a leaked PA report for international donors urged them to pressure the Israeli government to release its revenues, warning of a "possible slide into institutional and political collapse".

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