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This week, Britain is glued to its televisions as a drama unfolds involving a desperate

fantasist who escapes to foreign climbs, but eventually has to return to

Britain to face the police. But that's enough about Boris Johnson's trip to India. Maybe he enjoyed

watching the thief's wife and the canoe on his flight out. Coming up, France looks into the abyss

as Emmanuel Macron tries to hold off Marine Le Pen in the second round of the

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