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An attempt on Robert Fico\u2019s life comes at a time of deep-running polarisation in his country\u2014much of which is his own doing. A vote today among auto workers in America\u2019s historically union-unfriendly south will indicate whether an organised-labour revolution can take hold (9:26). And the perception of time varies depending on what you are looking at (17:24).

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