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World Service,19 May 2026,49 mins

Officials in DRC say the number of Ebola deaths has increased sharply

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Kinshasa says response teams are on the ground, working to trace suspected infections.They say new cases are being found across a wider area. As China's Xi Jinping prepares to welcome Russia's Vladimir Putin to Beijing, we'll ask what the two leaders are likely to discuss -- and what it could mean for the wars in Ukraine and Iran. We have an interview with the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been found guilty of smuggling 400 tonnes of cocaine into the United States, only to be pardoned by Donald Trump. And Elon Musk plans to appeal against the dismissal of his legal case against OpenAI. (Photo: A Congolese health worker checks the temperature to screen a traveller at the Grande Barrier border; Credit: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters)

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