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Oct 2023
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Tuesday 3rd October 2023. World News. To...

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World News in 7 minutes. Tuesday 3rd October 2023

Today: Congo president candidate. Eswatini election results. WHO malaria vaccine. UNICEF Burkina Faso schools. Philippines naval exercises. Bangladesh dengue deaths. Mexico migrants. Brazil dolphin deaths. Canada grizzly attack. EU Ukraine meeting. Spain record temperatures. Greece Olympic stadium. 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

With Juliet Martin

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SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) tells the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts can be found at send7.org/transcripts. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they listen to SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.

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