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World Service,21 Aug 2019,23 mins

An Australian cardinal has failed to overturn his conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys in the 1990s

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Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of sexual abuse, has failed in a legal bid to quash his convictions in Australia; US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US; and the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, will meet the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin later today - as he tries to persuade the EU to agree to fundamental changes to the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

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