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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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After decades of conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, last week Donald Trump brokered a truce in the Oval Office. Our correspondent analyses the prospects for a lasting reconciliation. Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to spend $14bn on an AI hiring spree at Meta. And is the manosphere dangerous or a moral panic?
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0:57.5 | Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg took his empire all in on the Metaverse, even renaming the |
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1:09.5 | spend really eye-popping sums getting the talent in. |
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