For the record

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In a report on last Sunday’s regional elections in France, we said a previous Socialist administration had introduced a minimum wage in 1988. This was incorrect. It introduced a minimum social security allowance (“‘Abandoned’ French working class ready to punish left’s neglect by voting for far right”, News, last week, page 35).

Kasane, Botswana, “looks out across where five countries – Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Botswana – come together”, not Letlakane (“Botswana seems to show the way ahead in conservation – but poaching is still on the rise”, News, last week, page 19). The error was made at the editing stage. The piece should also have made it clear that the journalist’s travel expenses were paid for by AllianceEarth.org.

A piece from Nam O beach, where US troops first landed in Vietnam in 1965, said more than 540,000 US troops had served by the end of the war. That figure was the peak US strength, achieved in 1969. In total, 2.7m US troops served in the conflict (Dispatch, 1 March, page 4).

Buzzfeed has more than 900 staff, not 200, as we said in “Multibillion-dollar babies – what the hot tech startups are worth” (Business, last week, page 50).

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