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The European Parliament has set a Sunday deadline to ratify a Brexit trade deal this year. The 麻豆约拍's Andrew Walker brings us the latest news on the ongoing negotiations. Also in the programme, we hear from the US trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, about the possibility of a UK-US trade deal before the end of the Trump administration. Zambia's president, Edgar Lungu, has said that the state must assume a significant stake in selected copper mines to benefit the country beyond taxes, though argued he is not calling for nationalisation. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Zambia analyst Neil Thompson brings us the details. We have a report from Abuja, Nigeria, on an initiative to use solar-powered fridges to help distribute coronavirus vaccines to even the most remote communities. Plus, a row has broken out between social networking giant Facebook and Apple, over a feature it is introducing to allow users of its products to ban apps from tracking their activities online. Kate O'Flaherty is a technology journalist who specialises in data security, and explains what led to the two tech giants falling out.

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