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Mar 2025
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Israel creates agency to oversee displac...

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Israel has approved the establishment of an agency to enable the exit of Gazans who “voluntarily” want to leave the strip. Syria is cracking down on captagon smuggling. A Turkish court jailed the mayor of Istanbul pending trial as authorities arrested more than 300 protestors.

This episode features Thomas Helm and Sinan Mahmoud.
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