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Now playing Next Turkey Turkey retaliates over US sanctions Turkey’s President has hit back at the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on two Turkish ministers over the detention of a US clergyman accused of supporting terrorism. 04/08/2018
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Now playing Next Sweden Investigators probe police shooting of ‘disabled man with toy gun’ A probe is continuing into the behaviour of police in Sweden after a man with Down syndrome was shot in Stockholm. 04/08/2018
Now playing Next USA Weinstein wants charges thrown out Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's lawyers are seeking to have sexual assault charges thrown out over "warm" emails 04/08/2018
Now playing Next Singapore UN report claims North Korea nuclear programme still going on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korean denuclearisation can be achieved as a UN report finds evidence of Pyongyang violating sanctions 04/08/2018
Now playing Next USA Manned space flights to resume from U.S. soil The first flights to the International Space Station from the U.S. are due to take off in 2019 using commercially-funded craft built by SpaceX and Boeing 04/08/2018
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