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15/03/2019 GMT

New Zealand mosque attacks kills 49

BBC World Service - Newsday, New Zealand mosque attacks kills 49

Forty people have been killed at mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, police in New Zealand have confirmed. 

Cyclone Idai has been sweeping across south -eastern Africa over the last few days. It has already claimed the lives of about 100 people in Malawi and Mozambique and has just made landfall in the City of Beira, Mozambique's 4th largest.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May will try to persuade MPs for a third time to back her Brexit deal over the coming days. The Commons will vote on her withdrawal agreement by 20 March, after previously rejecting it by 230 and then 149 votes.

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