House committee releases Gaetz report; Biden commutes death sentences, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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North Korea is planning to send more soldiers to support Russia in Ukraine, according to South Korea’s armed forces.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to the free edition of the World In Brief from The Economist. |
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| 0:30.9 | This is The World in Brief from The Economist. |
| 0:38.3 | Our Top stories. |
| 0:41.8 | An ethics committee in America's House of Representatives |
| 0:45.1 | found that Matt Gates paid for sex with several women, |
| 0:49.7 | including a 17-year-old between 2017 and 2020. |
| 0:57.3 | The outgoing congressman often asked women to procure drugs, according to the long-awaited report, which concluded that he had probably |
| 1:02.5 | broken laws around prostitution and drug use. Mr. Gates withdrew his nomination to be Donald |
| 1:09.2 | Trump's Attorney General and has long denied the |
| 1:12.1 | accusations. |
| 1:15.3 | Emmanuel Macron named a new cabinet after the previous French government collapsed amid |
| 1:20.6 | failed budget negotiations. |
| 1:23.2 | Eric Lombard of the State Bank Case de Depot will be finance minister. The previous defense |
| 1:29.3 | and foreign ministers kept their jobs. Francois Beirut, the fourth prime minister in a year, |
| 1:35.3 | must soon attempt to pass a budget that contains yawning deficits. Moody's recently downgraded |
| 1:42.3 | France's sovereign debt. |
| 1:51.5 | President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row. |
| 1:58.9 | The men, all of whom were convicted of murder, will instead serve life sentences without the possibility of parole. |
| 2:03.3 | Donald Trump, the president-elect, has promised to restart federal executions, which Mr. Biden had paused. Mr. Biden said he could not, quote, |
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