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Oct 2023
11m 15s

Can Argentina dollarise?

Financial Times
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The US, Britain and Germany called on their citizens to leave Lebanon, political tensions in the UK are starting to boil over about Israel's response to Hamas's attacks, and the FT’s Michael Stott tells us why a radical outsider is the frontrunner in Argentina’s presidential election. 


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US, UK and Germany tell citizens to leave Lebanon amid fears of wider conflict

Keir Starmer faces growing mutiny from within Labour over Israel-Hamas stance

The radical outsider promising to cure Argentina’s economic ills

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