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Jul 2023
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41 surviving Kenya cult 'victims' face m...

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Over four-hundred bodies have been exhumed and hundreds are still missing. Also: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation holds an extraordinary meeting to discuss the latest burning of the Quran in Sweden, and why people can barely work out if an animal in a Chinese zoo is a real bear or a fake one. 
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