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US President Joe Biden maintains "complete confidence" in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a book reported that the top US general secretly contacted China amid worries that Donald Trump was out of control, the White House says. "The president has complete confidence in his leadership, his patriotism and his fidelity to our constitution," Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters during a press briefing in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITE
Experts from the WHO all but eliminate a controversial theory that Covid-19 came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "The laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population," says Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the WHO mission. "Therefore is not in the hypotheses that we will suggest for future studies." IMAGES
China accuses Donald Trump of spreading a "political virus" at the United Nations after the US leader delivered a harsh attack on Beijing over the Covid-19 pandemic. "When the international community is really fighting hard against the Covid-19, the United States is spreading political virus here in the General Assembly," China's ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, tells reporters at the Chinese Consulate General in New York. SOUNDBITE
US President Donald Trump tells the UN General Assembly that China must be held accountable by the world for its actions over the Covid-19 pandemic. "We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China," he says. SOUNDBITE
Asked whether he expects a TikTok deal before of after the election, US President Donald Trump says he thinks "it could go quickly." Speaking to reporters at the White House, he tells them, "We have great companies talking to us about it." SOUNDBITE
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