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World Service,10 Jun 2020,23 mins

The funeral of George Floyd has taken place in Houston

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The funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice; at Oxford University, hundreds protested to demand that a statue of the arch imperialist Cecil Rhodes be taken down; and prosecutors in Sweden are expected to reveal new information about the murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme.

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