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Podcast: Focus on Headline
Episode: Focus on Headline 03/19/2024
Description: 1. The second day of the third Summit of Democracy hosted by South Korea opened on Tuesday with a civil society and youth event. A North Korean defector called for more global attention on the North's human rights situation during the opening ceremony.
2. President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday reaffirmed his determination to push ahead with medical reform, calling it the demand of the people and a task for the good of the public.
3. Oil prices climbed about 2 percent to a four-month high on Monday on lower crude exports from Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well...