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Nov 2023
10m 11s

Israeli hostages freed in fragile truce

THE TIMES
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Today we analyse what could go wrong in the four-day pause of fighting between Israel and Hamas, as the first hostages are swapped for Palestinian prisoners.

We also look at how Geert Wilder's election in The Netherlands could affect wider geopolitics, the decision to release paralympian-murder Oscar Pistorious from jail and how - and maybe why - Bob Dylan is changing his concerts.

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