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Now playing Next Culture news Paris 2024: Team Japan House unveils exhibition on Tokyo 2020 heritage Japan opened its Olympic House in Paris with an exhibition highlighting how the previous games in Tokyo had a lasting impact on the ongoing Paris Olympics. 30/07/2024
Now playing Next Europe News Flights cancelled to Lebanon as fears of Israel Hezbollah war loom Lebanon is expecting a retaliatory strike from Israel after a missile hit a football field in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan Heights over the weekend, killing 12 children and adolescents. 30/07/2024