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World Service,19 Feb 2020,53 mins

Coronavirus death toll passes 2,000

Newsday

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More than 130 deaths were recorded on Wednesday in Hubei province which has been the centre of the outbreak in China. The Libyan capital Tripoli has come under renewed attack from the forces of the warlord Khalifa Haftar. Swarms of locusts which have been wreaking havoc in Eastern Africa have arrived in South Sudan.

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