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World Service,12 Feb 2019,53 mins

Second US shutdown may be averted

Newsday

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Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement in principle on border security that could avoid a second US government shutdown. It is unclear whether President Donald Trump will endorse this. Police in Bulgaria are coordinating with British law enforcement in the probe of the non-fatal Novichok poisoning of three people connected to a weapons plan. And the International Committee of the Red Cross is trying an interactive experiment that gives participants a role in shaping the fate of civilians trapped in a war zone.

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