Blast from the past: a long-awaited verdict in Lebanon
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
For 15 years, the truck-bomb killing of a former prime minister went unpunished. But an even more devastating recent blast overshadowed a court’s ruling on the culprits. Chinese students hoping to study in America have been caught in the middle of the countries’ rising animus—not for the first time. And the origins of all the hair in Nigeria’s wildly popular wigs.
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| 1:12.9 | Soon after the first Chinese citizens graduated from American universities in the mid-19th century, |
| 1:19.1 | political mistrust between the countries took hold. |
| 1:22.4 | Now the world powers are at odds once more, and China's students are again caught in the middle. |
| 1:28.3 | And in Nigeria, there's endless appetite for wigs made of real hair. |
| 1:33.3 | Vietnamese locks are prized for their bounce. |
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