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Jul 2024
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France's far-right surge, Iran’s runoff ...

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Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally leads the first round of voting in France’s parliamentary elections. A protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and a moderate hopeful will go head-to-head in Iran’s presidential runoff election. And we look at the role youth homes played in turning Sweden into Europe’s gun crime capital.  


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