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Mar 2025
30m 29s

Six killed as Egyptian tourist submarine...

Bbc World Service
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Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's Red Sea coast with at least six people confirmed dead. Also, Trump imposes new tariffs on foreign cars, and the devastation Sudan's civil war has caused to the National Museum.

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