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World Service,20 Jul 2021,49 mins

Peru: former village teacher becomes President

Newsday

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Son of peasant farmers, Pedro Castillo, takes power, promising to level up the economy for the country's poorest. Ben and Jerry's end its sale of ice cream in occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli Prime Minister calls the move "morally wrong". And how a new treatment might be healing lungs scarred by Covid-19.

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