Foreign media visit mudslide disaster zone in Xizang
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Foreign media reporters visit the mudslide disaster zone in Xizang, while Iran announces sanctions and Germany's far-right party achieves a political victory.
Foreign media reporters have visited the disaster zone to see the impact and rescue efforts in China's Xizang Autonomous Region in the aftermath of a devastating mudslide along the China-Nepal border (01:01). Iran says it will announce a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days and place any ship attempting to transit through the area on its sanctions list (08:53). The far-right Alternative for Germany party has secured a historic victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt (18:42).
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