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Australia to re-open controversial detention centre
News and issues making the headlines each day.
Australian PM Scott Morrison says he will re-open a controversial detention centre on Christmas Island, after a historic defeat in parliament.
Non-government MPs have secured enough votes to pass a bill making it easier for sick refugees held offshore to be treated in the country.
Also on the programme: Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty at his drug-trafficking trial, and we learn more about the plight of the pangolian, the world's most trafficked animal.
(Photo: Christmas Island detention centre, Credit: Getty Images)
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Wed 13 Feb 201910:06GMT
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