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Democratic Party in US Calls on Attorney General To Resign

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Democratic Party calls on President Trump's Attorney General to resign

The senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,  has called on the Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign

Pressure is growing on Jeff Sessions - an early supporter of Donald Trump and now his Attorney General - after it emerged that he had undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador to Washington during the presidential campaign.

Representatives from a number of countries are preparing to meet in Belgium to raise funds for women's health services providing information about abortion that face the withdrawal of US funding. 

Scientists who tracked two elephants across Botswana have found that the animals have the shortest sleep period of any land mammal  - just two hours at a time, mainly at night.

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