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UK Environment secretary George Eustice announces that over 31,000 people who have tested positive for coronavirus have now died in Britain. SOUNDBITE
The ExCel conference centre in east London is being turned into a field hospital for up to 4,000 coronavirus patients. IMAGES
Britain's Chief Scientific Adviser says up to 10,000 people in the UK could be infected with the novel coronavirus, as the country announces new measures to slow the spread of the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
As the UK winds up its operation to airlift civilians ahead of the August 31 deadline for US troop withdrawal as Taliban forces prepare to take over the airport, British ambassador to Afghanistan Laurie Bristow says nearly 15,000 British nationals, Afghan staff and others at risk have been evacuated from Kabul since "Operation Pitting" began. Britain hasn't "forgotten the brave, decent people of Afghanistan," Bristow says as British troops prepare to pull out, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. SOUNDBITE
Police cordon off the area around Dinh Van jewellery store in Paris, after two men stole jewels worth 400,000 euros, according to a source close to the case. This comes just three days after an armed man using a stand-up scooter robbed famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet of up to three million euros worth of jewellery. IMAGES
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