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Diamond Princess: some passengers allowed to leave flu-stricken ship

The ship was carrying about 3,700 people when it was placed in quarantine two weeks ago.

The authorities in Japan have begun allowing passengers who've tested negative for the coronavirus to leave a cruise liner that's been quarantined in a Japanese port for the past two weeks. More than two-thousand people in China are now known to have died from the disease.

Swarms of locusts which have been eating their way across East Africa have now arrived in South Sudan, the government has confirmed..

The remains of a Neanderthal man from 70,000 years ago has been found in present-day Iraq.

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