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Hezbollah launches barrage of rockets at Israel following commander's killing
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4 July 2024
Episode 3333
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Hezbollah responds to the killing of a senior commander with a barrage of rockets at Israel. And: As Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Sun’ declares for the UK’s Labour Party on the eve of the election, is the late call a death knell for tabloids? Plus: how “democracy’s biggest year” is going and Japan declares victory in its war on floppy disks.
4 July 2024
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Japan declares victory in its war on floppy disks
Most of us probably haven’t seen a floppy disk since the late 1990s but in Japan they were still required by the government for the storage of some documents. We find out why the technology, memorialised in an emoji, has survived so long in one of the most advanced nations on earth.
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