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A chicken shortage hitting UK and Irish branches of KFC has left customers feeling peckish after hundreds of shops have been forced to close.
Over three hundred branches remain closed following major operational issues when the fast food chain swapped chicken distributors. Marnie Gill reports.
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Moscow says that Western allegations the Russian Air Force was responsible for civilian deaths in the rebel-held district of Eastern Ghouta were groundless. It comes after a US official accused Moscow of taking part in bombing raids. Julia Lyubova reports from Moscow.
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DUR: 51secsOUT: SOCUganda's military confirms a senior commander of the Allied Democratic Forces has been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.IN: Muhammad Kayiira was.....
The ADF commander was killed after his group attacked a Congolese troop position near the city of Beni in North Kivu province.
Isabel Nakirya reports
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The American evangelist Billy Graham has died at the age of 99.
Often considered the man who invented the modern evangelical movement, he claimed that he had preached the Gospel to more people than anyone else in history.
His "revival meetings" and "crusades" were a fixture on the American social landscape for more than 60 years, and he was revered by successive US Presidents.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The American evangelist Billy Graham has died at the age of 99.
Often considered the man who invented the modern evangelical movement, he claimed that he had preached the Gospel to more people than anyone else in history.
His "revival meetings" and "crusades" were a fixture on the American social landscape for more than 60 years, and he was revered by successive US Presidents.
His ministry found fame in 1949, when he pitched a circus tent in Los Angeles and started preaching the word with a style and showmanship that few Americans had seen before.
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By the late 1950s, he had visited the White House….appeared on the front page of Time Magazine….and preached the Gospel internationally.
By the 1960s, he was firmly established as "America's priest"….and was regularly invited by the media to offer commentary on a variety of social developments, even including the wild success of "The Beatles".
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In 1973, he visited South Africa, but only after the country's apartheid authorities allowed to let him preach to multi-racial audiences.
It was an unprecedented moment, and his message infuriated the country's white minority government.
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After the attacks of September 11th 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush invited Billy Graham to lead the national service of remembrance for the more-than 3000 people who died.
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Billy Graham delivered his final public sermon in Baltimore in 2006.
Then aged 87, he was still trying to bring people to the Lord.
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