19 Dec 2025
23m

TikTok signs deal to avoid US ban

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Global News Podcast

This BBC Global News Podcast episode for December 19th covers several international stories, including TikTok's deal to sell its US operations to American investors to avoid a ban, the release of new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate by Democrats, and Ukraine's struggle to support families of soldiers who died by suicide. It also reports on violence in Bangladesh following the death of a student protest leader, Australia's new gun buyback scheme after the Bondi Beach shooting, the use of drones to study whale health, and the insolvency of Hofner, Paul McCartney's guitar maker.

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