The day Hamas came: a report from an Israeli kibbutz
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:37.9 | Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, is on troubled waters. |
| 1:43.0 | Despite some bits of its business being profitable, |
| 1:46.0 | it has become the world's most indebted oil company. Is there any hope for a turnaround? |
| 1:54.0 | And Nintendo's new Super Mario game comes out today, and it's 2D. You might be wondering, hasn't tech moved on from that? |
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