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Jan 2025
27m 42s

Trump overturns convictions for hundreds...

Bbc World Service
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The president pardons those who took part in the storming of the Capitol in 2021. Also; a deadly fire kills dozens of people in Turkey and why filmmakers are heading to Saudi Arabia.

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