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World Service,01 Aug 2019,53 mins

Biden spars with critics at Democratic debate

Newsday

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Former Vice-President Joe Biden has come under attack from other Democratic 2020 candidates in a televised debate. The party's frontrunner shared a stage in Detroit with nine other presidential hopefuls and there were several sharp exchanges on healthcare and the border. Hamza Bin Laden, the son of the former al- Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, is reported to have been killed in a military strike. It's one year today since the latest outbreak of Ebola struck the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This week a second case of Ebola was confirmed in the teeming city of Goma, which is home to two million people.

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