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US Senate starts Supreme Court confirmation hearings

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Hearing starts for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett

A US Senate Committee starts a confirmation hearing for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. The chairman says it will be a 'long contentious week'.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has begun a confirmation hearing for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, in what the chairman Lindsey Graham acknowledged would be a 'long contentious week'. Also in the programme: The Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected a proposal by Azerbaijan to bring its ally Turkey into talks about the future of the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region; and Qingdao China tests all of its nine million residents after just a handful of new coronavirus infections. Photo: Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: Reuters.

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