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World Service,21 Aug 2020,53 mins

Joe Biden vows to lead USA out of 'its season of darkness'

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Joe Biden has drawn the Democratic Party convention to a close with a speech that launches him and Kamala Harris onto the campaign trail for the President and Vice-President of the United States. Lebanon has just returned to lockdown in an attempt to reverse a spike in coronavirus infections, we ask what this means for an already devastated nation. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remains gravely ill - but an air ambulance has left Berlin to bring him to Germany.

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