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World Service,24 Dec 2021,49 mins
Former South Korean President's corruption sentence pardoned
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The disgraced former South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been pardoned four years into a twenty-two year prison sentence for corruption. Reaction has ranged from shock and outrage to celebration as we'll hear from Seoul. South African scientists have said Omicron is a far milder variant of Covid, and now the UK government has released a study confirming this. It means even vulnerable people are less likely to require urgent treatment. And the advertisement creating a stir in Norway showing Santa Claus in a gay kiss.
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