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Argentina reverses law criminalizing femicide

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Women with one of their eyes covered, hold signs reading in Spanish: “We want judicial reform,” left, and “Stop killing us,” center, during a protest against gender violence, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 17, 2021.

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Argentina’s president reverses a law that established femicide as a crime. Also, a new report shows that the majority of young people in the UK would prefer to live in a dictatorship, and many of them also want the army to be in charge. And, the Israeli government has banned the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA, from operating in Israel land in East Jerusalem. Plus, Spanish guitarist Antonio Rey’s latest flamenco album is up for a Grammy Award in the Best Global Music Album category.

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In This Episode

Does Gen Z really want a dictatorship in Britain?
5:21
Argentina to remove femicide from country’s penal code
6:20
Things you might have missed
1:14
Israeli ban on UNRWA goes into effect
4:09
Africa’s promise of electricity for 300 million people
4:01
Asteroid contains some of life’s building blocks
4:56
Election in Belarus called a ‘sham’ by opposition and European leaders
Special Coverage
4:58
Exiled female Afghan cricketers play first game together in three years
1:06
A counter-culture journey along the hippie trail
5:48
Bhutanese refugees stuck in Nepal remain in limbo
Special Coverage
6:03
Antonio Rey tells the story of flamenco with his guitar
1:09
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