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World Service,10 Mar 2020,53 mins

Covid-19: whole of Italy on lockdown

Newsday

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The Italian government has extended emergency measures aimed at tackling the coronavirus outbreak, imposing travel restrictions and a ban on public gatherings across the entire country... The government of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is refusing to take down billboards which identify people who protested against a new citizenship law - disobeying a court order. Women across Mexico have joined a day-long strike in protest at the high levels of violence they face.

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