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Lebanon says at least thirty-one killed in Beirut airstrike

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Lebanon's health minister says at least thirty-one people are now known to have been killed by Friday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut - a third of them women and children.Also in the programme: do France's rape laws and the way it prosecutes cases need to change? And on World Alzheimer's Day, what's it like when your mother forgets who you are?(IMAGE: Residents near the site targeted by an Israeli strike the previous day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 21 September 2024 / CREDIT: Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
21 Sep 8AM English United Kingdom News

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