You can limit the length of $row['newscontent'] with the substr function
echo substr($row['newscontent'], 0, 199);
There are various hang-ups that you should be aware of though: it will take 200 characters, it doesn't handle multibyte strings well (utf-8 etc) and if your newscontent contains markup, it will likely be broken
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