World News in Brief: $236 billion a year profit from forced labour, Senegal election update, peacekeepers in Lebanon

Forced labour is happening all over the world and it’s earning criminal gangs an astonishing $236 billion a year – $64 billion more than a decade ago, UN researchers said on Tuesday.

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World News in Brief: $236 billion a year profit from forced labour, Senegal election update, peacekeepers in Lebanon

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