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World Service,12 Feb 2019,23 mins

Tentative deal agreed in US to avoid shutdown

Newsday

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Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement in principle on border security that could avoid a second US government shutdown. The politically controversial trial of a group of prominent Catalan separatists is due to get underway in the Spanish capital Madrid. It centres on the 2017 Catalan referendum and subsequent declaration of independence. A former British soldier caught up in the bombing of Dresden during the Second World War turns 100 later this year. Victor Gregg's book Dresden - a Survivor's Story - urges people never to forget what happened.

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