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World Service,19 Feb 2020,53 mins

Coronavirus: some cruise ship passengers going home

Newsday

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Several hundred passengers have left the stricken cruise liner in Japan after testing negative for the coronavirus. More than 2,000 people in China are now known to have died from the disease. The internationally-recognised Libyan government has pulled out of ceasefire talks after forces loyal to a renegade general shelled the capital. The British government has given fuller details of its new immigration policy. Critics say it will damage the economy.

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