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World Service,26 Jun 2019,53 mins

Shock over photo of father and child drowned in the Rio Grande

Newsday

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Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has said he's saddened by the deaths of a father and his daughter from El Salvador as they tried to cross the Rio Grande into the United States. A photograph of their bodies shows them wrapped together in shallow water. The legislative council in Hong Kong is debating a motion of no confidence in the territory's chief executive, Carrie Lam, following the mass protests against her proposed extradition law. A 23-year-old former beauty queen in The Gambia, Fatou Jallow, has said she was raped in 2015 by former President Yahya Jammeh when he was in office.

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