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World Service,07 Jun 2021,53 mins

Mexicans vote in country's most violent elections

Newsday

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not himself in the running, but the elections have become a referendum on his populist agenda. Thailand begins it's vaccination programme - the country is struggling to contain its most severe outbreak of Covid19. And in Sudan, several activists have gone into hiding after highlighting the fact that the bodies of dozens of people killed during protests against president Omar al Bashir two years ago are STILL waiting for burial.

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