Israeli-US hostage reunites with family after being freed by Hamas

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Jackie Leonard, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 13th of May, these are our main stories.

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  Idan Alexander, the Israeli-American hostage who was taken to Gaza by Hamas in the October 7 attack,

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  has been released and is back in Israel.

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  The first white South Africans have arrived in the United States,

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  where the government is to grant them refugee status.

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  And prosecutors in the United States say Sean Diddy...

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  Combs ran a criminal enterprise as his sex trafficking trial begins.

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  Also in this podcast,

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  a surprise find of documents that have been in the basement of the Supreme Court in Argentina for 84 years.

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  Old photographs, propaganda,

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  but also membership booklets of organizations affiliated with the Nazi party.

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  21-year-old Idan Alexander is back in Israel,

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  having been released by Hamas after 19 months in captivity.

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  Shortly after it was confirmed he was free,

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  the US envoy Steve Witkoff handed his mother his own phone so she could talk to her son for the first time

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  since he was taken on October 7,

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  2023.

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  You look unbelievable.

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  Wow.

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