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The World Tonight: 22/10/2010

22/10/2010

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, 22/10/2010

National and international news and analysis.

Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis.

The French Senate passes the controversial pensions bill but the unions promise more protests across the country

Wikileaks reveals over 400,000 US military files from the Iraq war - the largest document leak in US history

With the US mid term elections only two weeks away we report on the close race between the Democrats and the Republicans in Wisconsin

Gay rights activists in Uganda say they fear for their safety after a hundred gay people were named and pictured in a newspaper under the headline "Hang them" 

with Felicity Evans.

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