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World Service,18 Jun 2019,53 mins

US sends more troops amid tanker attack tension

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The US military will send an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran; the former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has been buried hours after he collapsed in court and died on Monday; and the BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang.

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