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Nine arrested in China for smuggling fentanyl to US

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China has jailed nine people for smuggling fentanyl into the United States, after a landmark joint operation against a drug that has killed thousands of Americans.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague is due to hand down its sentence in the case of Bosco Ntaganda. The former Congolese warlord was convicted of thirteen counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

And we go to Lebanon where protesters have taken to the streets over the last three weeks.

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  • Thu 7 Nov 201908:06GMT