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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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A constellation of islands, reefs and rock-piles has been the source of disputes for decades. As a new phase in the conflict begins, how to calm things down? In the first of a series of first-person dispatches, we speak to a student in Gaza (09:50). And after a conservation success story, Europe’s wolves are again villains in the popular imagination (18:19).
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| 1:05.6 | The Economist. |
| 1:15.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:18.5 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:23.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. In recent weeks, we've been bringing you dispatchers from the Middle East, where so many lives have been shattered. |
| 1:34.3 | Today, we meet Dima, a 22-year-old student in Gaza. |
| 1:40.3 | And settle in for a little story. |
| 1:42.3 | Once upon a time, in Europe, there was a big bad wolf |
| 1:46.5 | conservation problem. Now populations have bounced back, and what to do about them wolfing down |
| 1:52.6 | livestock has become a kind of hot-button culture war issue. |
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