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World Service,12 Dec 2019,53 mins

Citizenship Amendment Bill: India parliament approves controversial law

Newsday

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India is deploying thousands of troops in the north-eastern state of Assam, which is being rocked by mounting protests against the country's controversial new citizenship bill; how the struggle for political - and electric - power has become a matter of life and death in Lebanon; and how ditching plastic packing and replacing it with a natural fruit spray may help save both the planet and fruit and veg from going off in your fridge.

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