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World Service,27 Aug 2019,53 mins

Australian writer charged with spying in China

Newsday

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Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been formally arrested in China on suspicion of spying. In a landmark case, the US drugs company Johnson and Johnson has been fined more than half a billion dollars for fuelling the opioid addiction epidemic in Oklahoma. A court hearing on the fitness of Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba fails to take place We try to find out what's going on.

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