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World Service,06 Oct 2021,49 mins

Australia agrees to close Manus detention centre

Newsday

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The Australian government says it will close a controversial migrant detention centre in Papua New Guinea - conditions at the Manus island facility has been criticised by the United Nations. Czechs are getting ready to choose their next leader this week-end - and with a current Prime Minister, whose name came up in the Pandora Papers this week standing again, there are concerns for the direction of the country. Half a century after they were first unearthed from a quarry in Wales, scientists have finally identified four small fossils as coming from the same, new species of dinosaur.

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