Sudan impact: the war the world forgot
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The Economist
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Much of Sudan has already collapsed into chaos. Now a crucial city may fall, the United Nations is belatedly scrambling to avert a bloodbath. Gary Lineker is a former footballer, broadcaster and podcast mogul. He also embodies Britain’s social aspirations (10:52). And the women in Japan who pay men to praise them (18:49).
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| 1:21.0 | shaping your world. |
| 1:23.0 | In Britain last night, the chief commentator for England's first match of the European |
| 1:32.3 | Championship could only have been one man, Gary |
| 1:35.5 | Linnaker. Our correspondent meets the former footballer turned National Sweetheart and now podcast |
| 1:42.0 | mogul. |
| 1:50.3 | And in Japan, paying for intimacy isn't new, but a boom in host clubs where male waiters pamper and flatter female customers reflects a worrying trend in society. |
| 1:55.0 | Many adults there never go on a real date. First up though, though, |
| 2:05.0 | though. |
| 2:07.0 | A city under a city under siege, petrified civilians, children starving. The death toll is mounting. |
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