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Senegal Army Acts to End Gambia Crisis
ECOWAS says its troops would pause operations to allow a final attempt at mediation
The West African military force intervening in The Gambia's presidential crisis says it has halted its advance into the country. The ECOWAS regional group said its troops would pause operations to allow a final attempt at international mediation.
On the eve of his inauguration as president, Donald Trump has told a rally of supporters in Washington that he will unify the country and make America great again.
Rescuers in Italy are working through the night in the hope of finding more survivors from an avalanche that smashed into a hotel in the centre of the country. Four people are known to have died and twenty-five people are missing.
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