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Aug 2020
12m 4s
Beirut explosion protests
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Neil and Catherine look at the vocabulary in the news around this story.
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Why are young people protesting around the world?
Gen Zs, those are people born between the late 90s and early 2010s, are protesting different issues, such as the quality of their education, job opportunities and voter rights. There have been protests in many countries including Albania, France, Italy, India and Spain. Learn mor ...
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Deadly Saudi airport attacks
14 people have been killed and over 300 injured in two attacks on Riyadh international airport in Saudi Arabia over the weekend. There were also a series of other attacks earlier in the week. The Houthis, a militant group in Yemen, said they were behind the attacks, and that they ...
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French school protests
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