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BBC news with Daniel Yaluyasga.


The coronavirus crisis has dominated the latest day of campaigning in the US presidential election with the number of infections there continuing to rise. Several media outlets say more that 80,000 new cases were reported on Friday, the highest daily figure so far. President Trump promised supporters at a rally in Florida that the pandemic would end soon. His rival Joe Biden accused Mr. Trump of having given up fighting the virus.


The President of Poland Andrzej Duda has tested postive for Covid-19. A senior official said President Duda was fine and consulting the medical authorities. News of his infection comes as Poland wrestles with the record spike in cases.


Argentina's State News Agency says that the former Bolivian President Evo Morales is visiting Venezuela, where there is speculation he may meet his ally President Maduro. Mr. Morales has been away Buenos Aires since December after living Boliva during unrest over last year's disputed election.


At least nine people had been killed in central Afghanistan in a roadside bombing. Officials said the vicitims' van was caught up in an explosion near Ghazni city. Local officials blamed the Tanliba for the attack.


A Pakistani television channel Geo News says that one of its reporters has gone missing in Karachi. Ali Imran did not return home on Friday. Amnesty International said it feared he had been subjeced to an enforced disappearance.


In Nigeria, a curfew introduced after nationwide protests angainst police brutality is due to be lifted in Lagos state. The 24-hour curfew has beem relaxed from eight in the morning to six in the evening local time.


A NASA space probe which is successfully collected rock fragments from an asteroid earlier this week is at risk of losing the consignment. The mission team says rock fragments have spewed off collectively and in partices drifting off into space. The mission aims to bring material from the asteroid back to Earth in 2023.


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