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World Service,21 Aug 2020,53 mins

Biden calls on America to choose hope over fear

Newsday

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Joe Biden has accepted the nomination to challenge Donald Trump as the Democratic Presidential candidate in a speech emphasising a message of hope. A plane has left Germany for Siberia with hopes to collect Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who's critically ill and in a coma after what suspected to be toxic poisoning. In Pakistan, initial fears that the country’s overcrowded cities would see high numbers of coronavirus deaths don’t appear to have materialised. It’s left public health experts surprised.

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