Issue 10611. Issue 9857. Improve the way exception handling, including test skipping, is done inside TestCase.run
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f4741fb..2e321c4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
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+- Issue #10611: SystemExit exception will no longer kill a unittest run.
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+- Issue #9857: It is now possible to skip a test in a setUp, tearDown or clean
+  up function.
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 - Issue #10573: use actual/expected consistently in unittest methods.
   The order of the args of assertCountEqual is also changed.
 
@@ -322,7 +327,7 @@
 - configparser: the SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser.
   The legacy ConfigParser class has been removed but its interpolation mechanism
   is still available as LegacyInterpolation.
-  
+
 - configparser: Usage of RawConfigParser is now discouraged for new projects
   in favor of ConfigParser(interpolation=None).