This week, Erin Flanagan and Jake Shropshire discuss the recent 2024 presidential elections in Romania, including how Călin Georgescu ran a TikTok campaign to win first place. Then they talk about the Pelicot trial in Mazan, France, with Gisele Pelicot’s courage to put her husband, Dominique Pelicot, in prison for 20 years for rape charges. And finally, they break down the state of a Hezbollah ceasefire, with officials from Israel and Lebanon meeting to discuss what that Israeli ceasefire might look like. Plus, how the ICC filed an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Then, in the Have You Heard rundown of the week’s biggest news, they break down Trump’s proposal for tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the ousting of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and the new nominee, Pam Bondi, the ICCs arrest warrant for Netanyahu and a former defense minister, the death of six tourists in Laos from suspected menthol poisoning, and a recent court case in Hong Kong that protects same-sex couples’ rights to certain housing and inheritance benefits.
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