A vote for Ukraine: why Estonia’s election matters
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🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The world’s biggest military donor to Ukraine, relative to GDP, is Estonia. Kaja Kallas, its prime minister, just won a resounding victory in an election that was effectively a referendum on continued support for Ukraine. Why some South Koreans are unhappy at a deal to compensate citizens forced to work for Japanese companies. And looking back at the often painful life of the King of Sting.
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| 1:01.0 | This week, South Korea and Japan worked out a deal to compensate |
| 1:05.0 | South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during the Second World War. |
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