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World Service,16 Dec 2020,53 mins

Germany starts Christmas lockdown amid Covid surge

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Germany has entered a hard lockdown closing schools and non-essential businesses in an attempt to stop a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections; hundreds of leaders from the world’s major faiths have called for gay conversion therapy to be banned; and a group of MP's in Britain have said that there should be a new approach by the government to relations with Iran.

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