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World Service,12 Aug 2021,49 mins

Afghans flee their homes as Taliban advance

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The dramatic advance of the Taliban on Afghanistan's regional capitals has terrified people and prompted tens of thousands to flee their homes creating a humanitarian catastrophe. In business the oil giant Shell has agreed to pay compensation to Nigerian communities for crude oil spills in 1970 during the Nigerian civil war. And is the Atlantic island nation of Iceland really the tip of a vast underwater continent?

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