The day Hamas came: a report from an Israeli kibbutz
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The Economist
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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They fled round after round of gunfire, hid for hours and saved hundreds of lives. It is a rare story of survival on what was a horrific day for Israel. Mexico’s national oil company has accrued immense amounts of debt. Why is the government still propping it up (12:47)? And, video games are going back to 2D (19:57).
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| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
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| 0:50.0 | Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, is on troubled waters. |
| 0:55.0 | Despite some bits of its business being profitable, |
| 0:58.0 | it has become the world's most indebted oil company. |
| 1:01.7 | Is there any hope for a turnaround? |
| 1:06.2 | And Nintendo's new Super Mario game comes out today, and it's too deep. |
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| 1:15.3 | But according to our correspondent, there's a good reason why the game is getting a vintage chic |
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| 1:28.0 | First up there. |
| 1:37.6 | My name is Adam. I'm from Kibouz, Niram. |
| 1:41.4 | At seven October, about six, twenty in the morning, I walk up to the sound of red alert, |
| 1:49.2 | alarm sign, unfortunately, that something regular about us, so I stay in bed. |
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