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France Approves A New Law Making It Illegal To Pay For Sex
France prostitution bill; Sudan's president to 'step down in 2020'; Extremism critic killed
After two years of heated debate France's parliament has passed a bill making it illegal to pay for sex.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has told the BBC in an exclusive interview that he will step down in 2020 when his current mandate ends.
A man who criticised religious extremism online has been murdered in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka- the latest of a number of secular activists to be killed there.
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