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World Service,08 Mar 2019,53 mins

Guilty: Paul Manafort sentenced to nearly four years in prison

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President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been sentenced to 47 months in prison by a court in Virginia. He had been convicted of banking and tax fraud. The Supreme Court in El Salvador has freed three women sentenced to thirty years in jail for murder, under the country's strict anti-abortion laws. They said they'd suffered miscarriages and were arrested after seeking medical help. The man at the centre of a campaign to expose one of Pakistan's most notorious so called "honour killing" cases - Afzal Kohistani - has been shot dead.

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