Price of Palestinian prisoner release, and gridlock hell in Lagos

A Palestinian man serving 18 life sentences for a pair of bus bombings in 2004 speaks to NPR days after his release. And, the average person in Lagos, Nigeria, spends over 6 hours of their day in traffic – have new Chinese-backed railways made a difference?

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Eyad Abu Shkheidem in his family's home in Hebron.

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