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Ex-Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort avoids lengthy jail term

BBC World Service - Newsday, Ex-Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort avoids lengthy jail term

The judge said calls for a sentence of more than 19 years in prison were excessive

President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been sentenced to 47 months in prison by a court in Virginia.  

China says it will support a law suit filed by the Huawei telecoms company, claiming that the Trump Administration's restrictions on its business activities were unconstitutional.

The first lady of the Caribbean nation of Guyana Sandra Granger has called domestic violence in the country a scourge of society.

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