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Jun 2023
49m 16s

Thousands of police deployed in France w...

Bbc World Service
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The French authorities are bracing themselves for the possibility of more violence linked to protests against the shooting dead on Tuesday of a teenage boy by a policeman. Forty thousand officers were deployed across the country in response. Also in the programme: The US Supreme Court has ruled that it is not permissible to consider a person's race in decid ... Show More
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