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Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, has won a legal battle to be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the removal of her British citizenship.
The 20-year-old left the UK in February 2015 and lived under IS rule for more than three years before she was found, nine months pregnant, in a refugee camp in February last year.
The then Home Secretary revoked her British citizenship on national security grounds.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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In Russia, more than a hundred people were detained after protests in Moscow [on Wednesday] against changes to the constitution. The rally was organised two weeks after a national vote on the changes, which could allow President Vladimir Putin an extra twelve years in power. Moscow Correspondent Lucy Taylor reports.
The Australian state of Victoria has again had its biggest increase in Coronavirus cases overnight.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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The United States is considering imposing a ban on Chinese Communist Party officials and their families traveling to the US, according to a report in the New York Times.
Tokyo has raised its coronavirus alert to its highest level, following a string of triple-digit daily cases. The governor warned that infections are spreading, and experts are worried about the increasing number of untraceable cases. Grace Lee reports from Tokyo.
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Hackers appeared to take control temporarily of several high profile Twitter accounts, including those belonging to US presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The tweets, which have been deleted, asked people to send cryptocurrency to a bitcoin address.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened a 15 point lead over President Trump in the race for the White House this November.
A new national poll shows the President's approval rating is now down to just 36 per cent...a new record low.
From Washington, Simon Marks reports.
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The World Health Organization is warning of an alarming decline in global childhood immunization, due to disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This means around 80 million children under the age of 1 year are at higher risk of contracting diseases easily preventable by vaccines.
Our UN correspondent Liling Tan reports.
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