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Zelensky and Trump meet in New York and Norway’s new carbon-capture facility
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27 September 2024
Episode 2863
44 minutes
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Donald Trump says he would work with both Ukraine and Russia to end their war, why vets’ incomes are rising faster than doctors’ in South Korea, Tesla checks in on home workers calling in sick and we report from the new Northern Lights CCS facility in Norway. Plus: Yaroslav Trofimov’s new novel ‘No Country for Love’.
27 September 2024
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