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World Service,14 Feb 2020,53 mins
Coronavirus: 'Pariah' cruise ship rejected by five ports docks at last
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A cruise ship that was stranded at sea, because ports were worried about passengers bringing coronavirus, has been allowed to dock in Cambodia. Scientists have found evidence of a mysterious “ghost population” of ancient humans that lived in Africa about half a million years ago and whose genes live on in people today. Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites in two decades.
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