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Oct 2024
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Russian sabotage and state-sponsored ter...

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Donald Trump tells supporters in Pennsylvania that Kamala Harris doesn’t have what it takes to be president and more than fifty people die in floods in southern Spain. Then: evidence emerges of new forms of sabotage and a terrifying method of state-sponsored terror carried out by Russia. Plus: we learn who Brazil’s new mayors are and Paul Richardson on his new book, ‘Myths of Geography’.

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