50 days for Putin: 'Much ado about nothing?', UK Data Breach scandal, Israel bombs Damascus
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A panel of Praris-based journalists review the week's international news: stories that made the headlines and also those the viewers may have missed. Putin's 50 days deadline: 'Much ado about nothing?', The Afghan leak & the UK super injunction, Why did Israel bomb Damascus?
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France 24
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- France 24
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