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Today, official relations between the US and China are not at their best, to say the least.

But nevertheless, the Chinese are taking a keen interest in the American election

and there's unexpected support for Donald Trump. The pandemic may have dominated the headlines in Brazil, but the rainforest is burning still.

Their president approves, but what about the people of the Amazon?

Challenge Russia's president, not many dare, though one journalist has gone to extreme measures,

taking her own life and blaming the country for her death.

And something to do during the restrictions imposed by the

virus. We're in Brussels as our correspondent goes hunting for the stories behind

its street names. First, Andrew Harding, who covers Africa for us, and who's been

reflecting on that most basic of skills for a correspondent, the use of words.

As darkness fell, heavily armed ethnic militia groups fanned out across the struggling

provincial city brandishing weapons.

Some fighters wearing tribal markings warned of a bloodbath

if the upcoming election which many here believe could be engulfed by rigging and

violence did not go their way. The's aging spiritual leader, a former businessman accused of staggering corruption and nepotism,

has accused opposition forces of stoking terror and trying to steal the election.

Foreign diplomats are privately warning

that the increasingly isolated oil-rich nations, fragile institutions may be close to collapse

and so on. Perhaps you can guess the country. No, not the Central

African Republic or South Sudan, but the United States. As for the writing style, in recent years journalists here in Africa have taken to playing a sort of parla game,

applying the kind of breathless, cliched style that foreign correspondence like me are sometimes accused of using to describe

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