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Saudi oil industry attacked

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service AustralasiaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

Drones and missiles took out half the kingdom's production. The US and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran - but there was no immediate military retaliation. Also in this edition: Italy softens its ban on Mediterranean migrants; child mortality halves; and India talks about what language it should talk in.
(Picture: Smoke billows from an Aramco factory in Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia
Credit: Reuters) Show less

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