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World Service,17 Sep 2019,53 mins

A US athlete swims across the English Channel four times

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An American woman, Sarah Thomas, has become the first person to swim four times non-stop across the Channel between France and England , a feat that took more than fifty-four hours. Research by the BBC suggests that the number of civilian deaths in the conflict in Afghanistan is much higher than previously thought. And we look at what sort of threat the group Islamic State poses in Northern Nigeria.

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