Standort: fm4.ORF.at / Meldung: "A country in shock"

Joanna Bostock

Reading between the headlines.

19. 3. 2015 - 15:30

A country in shock

Reality Check: terror in Tunisia; Greek anti-poverty bill; Pakistan executions; US Vietnam War veterans.

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Tunisia & Terror

A day after the worst terror attack in Tunisia in over a decade, Eileen Byrne reports on the latest, and Cengiz Günay from the Austrian Institute for International Politics analyses the country's progress since the Arab Spring and fears about the future:

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Greece & EU

Just ahead of a summit of European Union leaders, the Greek parliament has passed Syriza's first new law: a 200 million euro anti-poverty package. How will that go down in Brussels? Helena Smith in Athens has the details:

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Pakistan & Executions

Human Rights groups have expressed concern about Pakistan lifting its moratorium on executions, a move undertaken in the wake of a Taliban attack on a school. Originally intended to apply to terrorism-related cases, the death penalty ban has been lifted from all cases. We hear from Amnesty International's Deputy Asia Pacific Director David Griffiths.

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Barbara Köppel

Vietnam & Veterans

It's half a century since American combat troops were sent to Vietnam amid a war that dragged on for years and claimed millions of lives. Chris Cummins met up with some former soldiers returning to the sites where they fought in the 1960s:

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