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Australia agrees to close Manus detention centre

Australia has agreed to close its controversial migrant detention centre in Papua New Guinea by the end of the year.

The Australian government says it will close a controversial migrant detention centre in Papua New Guinea - conditions at the Manus island facility has been criticised by the United Nations.

Czechs are getting ready to choose their next leader this week-end - and with a current Prime Minister, whose name came up in the Pandora Papers this week standing again, there are concerns for the direction of the country.

Half a century after they were first unearthed from a quarry in Wales, scientists have finally identified four small fossils as coming from the same, new species of dinosaur.

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