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07/12/2019 GMT

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Iran and the US have reached a deal to swap prisoners

Iran and the US have reached a deal to swap prisoners.

The US and Iran have announced a prisoner swap in a rare sign of co-operation between the two countries. The exchange involved a Chinese-American researcher convicted of spying in Iran and an Iranian scientist held by the US. Both deny wrongdoing.

Also in the programme: a new report says the oceans of the world have lost around two per cent of their oxygen and Afghanistan bids farewell to a much-loved Japanese doctor killed last week.

(Photo: US Ambassador to Switzerland Edward T. McMullen welcomes Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang on arrival in Switzerland after his release from Iran Credit: AFP PHOTO / US State Department)

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