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Newsday: 07/10/2022 04:06 GMT : US president pardons thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession

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07/10/2022 04:06 GMT 

07/10/2022 04:06 GMT : US president pardons thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession

US president pardons thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession

BBC World Service - Newsday, US president pardons thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession

Joe Biden says criminalising possession disproportionally affects non-white people

Joe Biden says criminalising possession disproportionally affects non-white people.

The US President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of marijuana possession. He says criminalising possession disproportionally affects non-white people 

Following the attack on a nursery school in northern Thailand, the Thai King has announced that he will visit the town where at least 38 people were shot and  killed.

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