Thursday, November 30, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
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Thursday briefing: Henry Kissinger’s legacy; Gaza fighting pause; COP28 in Dubai; Google account deletion; and more
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| 0:00.0 | U.S. cities could be forced to get rid of lead pipes. |
| 0:07.0 | Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a pause in fighting, and we're starting the show with Henry |
| 0:11.8 | Kissinger, who died yesterday. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Jeff Pierre, and this is the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Thursday, November 30th. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's get you caught up with today seven stories. Number one, Henry Kissinger died yesterday at |
| 0:27.8 | the age of a hundred. Kissinger was America's top diplomat under |
| 0:32.0 | Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. |
| 0:34.9 | He was the only person to ever serve as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State at the same |
| 0:39.8 | time. |
| 0:40.8 | He held a level of power that has rarely been equaled by anyone who was not president. |
| 0:45.0 | Kissinger shaped key policy shifts with China, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East. |
| 0:51.0 | His diplomacy led to some of the most momentous developments of the late 20th century. |
| 0:56.0 | And he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for the negotiations that led to the end of America's |
| 1:02.0 | military participation in Vietnam. |
| 1:04.4 | But Kissinger's legacy is a divisive one. |
| 1:07.3 | His critics have branded him as a war criminal. |
| 1:09.8 | They hold him responsible for the secret bombing of Cambodia, a neutral country in 1969, |
| 1:15.6 | and they say he was at least indirectly responsible for a coup that overthrew Chile's |
| 1:20.1 | legally elected socialist government in 1973. the At number two, Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a pause in fighting for another day. |
| 1:38.3 | Since the pause began Friday, 210 Palestinian prisoners, 73 Israelis, and 24 foreign nationals have been released. |
| 1:47.0 | That's according to figures from the United Nations. |
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