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World Service,16 Jul 2019,53 mins

US restrictions on asylum deemed illegal

Newsday

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The US government is introducing new rules today that are likely to prevent hundreds of thousands of migrants claiming asylum, but the UN says they could be illegal. We try to find out why a UK-based think says that gas-rich Turkmenistan is facing its worst economic crisis in thirty years. Two British surgeons speak of the dramatic hours they spent operating on twins joined at the head.

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