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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Friday the 29th of March these are our main stories.

The former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam

Bankman-freed has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for one of the biggest

financial frauds in US history. The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to take urgent

action to ensure basic food supplies to Palestinians in Gaza, saying starvation is spreading.

Doctors have reported a sharp increase in cases of

dengue fever in the Americas which could be linked to global warming.

Also in this podcast, the

the bill states that it's against the law to discriminate on the basis of the cut,

length, color or texture of a person's hair.

The French Lower House of Parliament begins the legal process to protect against Bankman freed goes, the circus follows.

Thursday was no exception.

As the world's media gathered outside a court in Manhattan in New York, the

former crypto king arrived with his trademark bushy black hair, but wearing prison clothes

supplied by a detention center.

He's been held there since August last year when a judge revoked his bail

because of what he called likely tampering with witnesses.

But with a sentence of 25 years for stealing $8 billion from the customers of the now bankrupt

FTX cryptocurrency exchange, it may be Sam Bankman-Freed's last appearance in public for some time. His parents, who are both

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