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Aug 2024
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Stock markets have fallen as fears of a US recession send investors fleeing from risk while wagering that rate cuts will be needed to rescue growth. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is holding an emergency meeting with police chiefs after days of violent anti-immigration protests intensified. Jason Rezaian, a journalist who was released from Iran in 2016 after being wrongfully detained, tell us the mental and bureaucratic challenges facing the prisoners released in an exchange with Russia last week. 


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