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HAMBURG/PARIS (Reuters) – Algeria will allow French wheat imports in March because of disruption to Black Sea shipments, traders said on Thursday, overturning a recent exclusion that had hit the EU’s biggest wheat exporter. Relations between France and its former colony were damaged in October when President Emmanuel Macron questioned whether there had been an Algerian nation before French colonial rule, accusing it also of rewriting the history of its colonisation. Algerian state grain agency OAIC purchased around 600,000 tonnes of milling wheat in mid-January but according to traders had bar…