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New York (AFP) – Salman Rushdie is on the road to recovery and showing signs of his “feisty and defiant” self, family and friends said Sunday, days after a shocking assault left him on a ventilator with multiple stab wounds. Just hours after Friday’s attack at a literary event in western New York state, the British author had undergone emergency surgery for potentially life-threatening injuries. But his condition, while still serious, has since shown clear signs of improvement and he no longer requires assisted breathing. “He’s off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun,” his agent…