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  • Ep 130: A horror in Haiti
    Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in his own home last week. But who was behind it all? And why did they want to kill him? 

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    7 min
  • Ep 129: A masked U-turn
    At first Boris Johnson said that after the great unlocking, masks would no longer be mandatory. Just days later, he changed his mind. Why?

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    7 min
  • Ep 128: A star lawyer in the dock
    Tom Girardi was such a famous lawyer that he was portrayed as a character in a Hollywood movie. But then rumours started to emerge that his clients weren't getting all the money he'd won for them in settlements.

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    6 min
  • Ep 127: A vaccination anthem
    Vax That Thang Up could be the sound of summer 2021. It's a pro-vaccination remake of Juvenile's 1999 hip-hop classic.

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    7 min
  • Ep 124: A tragedy in Miami
    As 28 people are confirmed dead and 117 are still missing in the rubble, America is asking: what went wrong at Miami's Champlain Towers?

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    7 min
  • Ep 123: Canada's terrible secret
    Thousands of unmarked graves have been found in Canada at former residential schools for children from indigenous families. The true scale of the scandal is still emerging.

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    8 min
  • Ep 122: A bitter by-election
    Labour won this week's by-election after a very hard-fought campaign. And the party wasn't only fighting its opponents.

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    7 min
  • Ep 121: Why Bill Cosby was freed
    Comedian Bill Cosby was jailed for sexual assault - one of the highest-profile stars held to account after the #MeToo movement. So why has he just walked free?

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    6 min

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