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President Trump says the officials within his White House who provided information to a whistleblower are close to being "spies" and he's demanding that they be unmasked.
The President also says he ought out to have the power to halt the impeachment probe now underway on Capitol Hill.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The Congolese government and international aid agencies have launched a huge measles vaccination campaign in six of the DRC's provinces.
The aim is to stem the world's largest measles outbreak. Health officials have recorded close to 200,000 cases and 3,667 deaths since the beginning of the year. Chris Ocamringa has that story from Kinshasa.
Chris Ocamringa reports from Kinshasa.
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The whistleblower alleging serious misconduct by President Trump is claiming the White House operates a secret electronic storage system where records of his conversation with the Ukrainian President were hidden.
The complaint alleges that multiple White House officials were so worried by the President's discussions with the Ukrainian leader that they locked records of the conversations away.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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A carbon offset project run by Hadza tribe who are hunter-gatherers in Tanzania has been awarded the UN's Equator Prize for conservation and sustainability in New York, along with 21 other indigenous groups that are using natural solutions to combat climate change.
German chancellor Angela Merkel has called former French president Jacque Chirac "an outstanding partner and a friend to us Germans to me personally".
Chirac died Thursday at the age of 86.
Ira Spitzer reports from Berlin.
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The UK's Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, says Boris Johnson's language in the House of Commons was "nothing short of disgraceful." The Labour leader argues that "the language politicians use matters and have real consequences."
This comes after the UK Prime Minister dismissed the concerns of one MP facing death threats who made reference to the murder of Jo Cox, the MP killed days before the EU referendum.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing condemnation over inflammatory language being used in the Brexit debate. Boris Johnson angered many MPs on both sides of the House by using words such as "surrender" and "betray" as he addressed his colleagues.
Parliament had resumed following the Supreme Court's decision that its prorogation was unlawful, but the debate over Brexit was overshadowed by heated exchanges in the House of Commons, as Benji Hyer explains.
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President Trump says he never pressured the Ukrainian President to open a corruption investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, even though a memorandum of a conversation between the two men released by the White House clearly shows them discussing the issue.
Donald Trump met with President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday as our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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