Supreme Court Hears TikTok Case, Syrians Return Home, French Rape Trial Verdicts

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

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TikTok's U.S. future is up to the Supreme Court. The Chinese-owned company wants the high court to stop a ban of the app from taking effect next month. Many Syrian refugees say they want to go home, now that the Assad regime is gone — but what will wait there for them? In France, judges delivered verdicts in a rape case that has shocked the nation and the world.

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0:00.0	TikTok's American Future is now up to the Supreme Court.
0:06.3	The Chinese-owned company wants the High Court to stop a ban of the app from taking effect next month.
0:11.3	What does this mean for the tens of millions of TikTok users?
0:14.2	I'm Steven Skiy with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.5	7,000 Syrian refugees have been living in a makeship camp on the Jordanian border for the past nine years.
0:28.0	Now, after the fall of the Assad regime, most of them want to go home, but what will wait for them there?
0:33.0	NPRF is one of the first journalists who have visited the campsite.
0:36.2	Also, judges delivered verdicts in a French rape case that shocked many people around the world.
0:41.7	The victim has become a feminist hero, but will the trial make a difference for others?
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