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Jun 2024
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Kenya protests, Russian detainees and Bi...

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Protests in Kenya turn deadly as demonstrators storm the parliament building to protest proposed tax hikes and IMF demands. As Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door trial starts in Russia, we take a look at the fate of other American detainees

in the country. And ahead of the first US election debate between President Joe

Biden and Donald Trump, how will voters judge their economic records?


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