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US allows wider use of blood plasma treatment

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The US Food and Drug Administration have given emergency authorisation for the use of convalescent blood plasma to treat coronavirus patients. The technique takes antibody-rich blood plasma from people who've recovered from the disease, giving it by transfusion to the sick.

One of President Trump's longest-serving advisers, Kellyanne Conway, is leaving the White House at the end of the month. Mrs Conway helped Mr Trump win the presidency as campaign manager in 2016, and has since been one of his most vocal defenders.

A court in New Zealand has heard how an Australian white supremacist convicted of murdering fifty-one Muslim worshippers at two mosques last year had planned his attack to cause maximum casualties. Prosecutors said Brenton Tarrant had timed the shootings for when the mosques would be at their busiest.

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