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Newshour: What Happened To US Aircraft Carrier?

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19/04/2017 GMT

What Happened To US Aircraft Carrier?

BBC World Service - Newshour, What Happened To US Aircraft Carrier?

President Trump said he was sending an aircraft to Korea, but it was heading elsewhere

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Amid tensions between the US and North Korea, President Trump said he was sending an aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula, but it has emerged that the ship was heading elsewhere.

Also in the programme: teargas is fired at demonstrators in Venezuela protesting against the state of the economy; and former NFL star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez has hanged himself in his prison cell. 

(Photo: The USS Carl Vinson with other warships in the Indian Ocean. Credit: Reuters)

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