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Historic Third Successive Gold for Bolt
Bolt win; Chibok girls; Manbij celebrates
Usain Bolt has won gold in the 100m at the Rio Olympics, becoming the first sprinter to win three successive Olympic 100-meter titles.
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some 50 of the schoolgirls they abducted from the northern town of Chibok. We hear from one father who recognised his daughter in the video.
Residents in the northern Syrian city of Manbij have been celebrating new freedoms after being liberated from the rule of so-called Islamic State.
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