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Drugmaker must pay $572m for fuelling opioid crisis
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A US judge has ruled that drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m for fuelling opioid addiction in Oklahoma. The company say they will appeal the decision.
Also in the programme: Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been charged with spying after being detained since January; how are indigenous people in the Amazon rain forest responding to wildfires?
(Picture: Painkiller drugs. Credit: Getty Images)
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