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Dec 2020
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Boris Johnson's rushed Brexit trade deal...

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Los Angeles sees catastrophic Covid surge and first case of new variant. Twenty-two killed in attack on Aden airport after new Yemen cabinet lands. Boris Johnson's rushed Brexit trade deal becomes UK law.

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