The latest short-form news audio from FSN Bureaus worldwide
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India has moved 50,000 soldiers to its border with China.
Experts are calling this an aggressive move in one of the most volatile regions of the world.
Especially since tensions have been simmering after a deadly clash resulted in the loss of lives on both sides last year.
Ishan Garg reports.
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Hong Kong police are reported to have arrested a seventh senior journalist from the defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. Local media reports say the newspaper's former editorial writer was arrested at the airport while attempting to leave the city.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
The former police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd has been sentenced to 22 and half years in prison.
This case set off waves of protest across the globe over police abuse of Black people.
US Correspondent Rachel Silverman has more.
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Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years behind bars, for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
The sentence is more than the state of Minnesota’s minimum guidelines but less than the 30 years prosecutors had hoped for.
Nina-Maria Potts has more:
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Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin's sentencing hearing for the murder of African American George Floyd is underway.
Prosecutors are seeking a 30 year sentence, while his defense team want probation and time served.
Chauvin was convicted of multiple charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank- emotional at times- said Chauvin, who pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck until he could no longer breathe- said it was time for his family to get justice.
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At least 159 people are still missing after an apartment building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Search and rescue crews are working round the clock with dogs and drones in search of any signs of life.
At least four people have died, amid mounting anger over why the 40-year-old building collapsed.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he wants definitive answers, having declared a state of emergency in Florida.
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the US-Mexico border, after coming under heavy fire for not having visited before.
Biden’s ‘Border Tzar’ visited a migrant processing center - amid a surge in migrant crossings.
The Biden administration has restarted so-called “lateral flights,” where migrants who’ve successfully crossed over, are sent to a different part of the border, and often sent back to Mexico.
Critics have slammed conditions under which migrants are being held on both sides of the border.
Kamala Harris, speaking from El Paso earlier:
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As the International Atomic Energy Agency presses Iran to extend a nuclear monitoring agreement that expired overnight, the US has warned that a failure to re-instate the agreement would be a serious concern.
The lapsed inspection agreement could disrupt talks to revive the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Here's Liling Tan with the details.
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The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that the US and France stand together to face countries that 'challenge the rules-based international order', such as Russia and China.
Blinken was speaking in Paris on a tour of European capitals seeking to bolster alliances with talks on Covid-19, climate change, and worldwide security threats.
Ross Cullen reports.
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