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US Warship Collides With An Oil Tanker Near Singapore

Rescue teams from Malaysia, Singapore and the US are searching for ten missing US sailors.

Rescue teams from Malaysia, Singapore and the US are searching for ten missing US sailors after the US Warship the USS John McCain collided with a Liberian flagged oil tanker in the sea near Singapore. This incident follows a similar one in the same region only two months ago when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo vessel killing seven American sailors.

Also on the programme we will have updates from Barcelona following Thursday's terror attacks which saw thirteen people killed, and we'll be reporting on Africa's baby boom; two thirds of the population of that continent is under twenty five years old. What does this mean for the world?

(Picture: The USS John McCain Credit: Reuters)

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