Belgian man accidentally moves French border

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A farmer in Belgium has inadvertently redrawn the country’s border with France. The man was annoyed to find a large rock in his tractor’s path and moved it inside French territory. Later, a local historian was walking in the forest when he noticed the rock, which marks the boundary between the two countries, had moved 2.29m. “We should be able to avoid a new border war,” said the mayor of the adjoining French village, Aurélie Welonek.

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