PRI's The World: 12/21/2015
Corruption comes in many sizes, and it's clear that at FIFA, soccer's governing world body, corruption has severely tarnished the sport's image. Plus, we discuss the budding "bromance" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. The two men have been exchanging quite a few pleasantries of late. Also, the preferred English accent in South Korea happens to be "Ameri...
46m Dec 21, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/18/2015
Marco Werman has one more day on assignment in Kenya, and today he meets some of the very few women who serve as safari tour guides in Kenya. We also hear from one of the country's few female stand-up comedians, and we say goodbye with a Swahili version of Adele's hit "Hello." Meanwhile, in Germany, The World's Matthew Bell looks at whether or not police there are prepared for a Paris-style att...
46m Dec 18, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/17/2015
Million of Syrians have faced this decision since their country's civil war began: to stay and risk being killed in the war, or go and risk everything to try and start a new life elsewhere. Today, we hear about one Syrian family now trying to start over in Germany, and a Syrian man determined to keep his family in war-torn Aleppo. Also, Marco Werman continues our series on women in Kenya who ru...
46m Dec 17, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/16/2015
The GOP candidates only used the word "fear" once in their debate last night, and yet the feeling that America is under serious threat right now seemed palpable. We get an Afghan viewpoint on the current political climate in the United States from an Afghan TV personality who's currently studying here in the US. Also, Marco Werman and our team are still in Kenya, bringing us stories about women...
47m Dec 16, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/15/2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school system with more than 700,000 students, was shut down today because of a "credible threat" of violence involving backpacks and packages. We get the latest from Los Angeles, and take a closer look at the current climate of fear here in the United States. Plus, Marco Werman and our crew are in Kenya looking at stories of ...
46m Dec 15, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/14/2015
Today, we launch a week of special coverage in our Across Women's lives project. Marco Werman is in Kenya all week, talking business with women entrepreneurs. We're calling the coverage "Owning It," as in women owning it and inspiring others to as well. Today, we'll focus on a 15-year-old girl who started her own beadwork business using an innovative savings program. Plus, President Barack Obam...
45m Dec 14, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/11/2015
Donald Trump and his comments about Muslims have dominated headlines and airwaves this week — and not just here in America. Foreign correspondents based in the US are busy filing on the Trump story for their publications back home. Plus, the UN global climate summit is going into overtime, as negotiators from nearly 200 countries try to hammer out a deal. We also take you to Kenya, where our Ac...
45m Dec 11, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/10/2015
Amid all the cultural, social and religious strife right now, we've got the story of a Christian and a Muslim who run an Interfaith Center in Nigeria. We also have a perspective on the strategy of ISIS and where the fight against it stands. Plus, there has been an uptick in anti-Muslim harassment in the Bay Area this past week.
45m Dec 10, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/09/2015
US lawmakers vote to restrict the program that lets some foreign nationals enter the US without a visa. Meanwhile, we also hear how the US has blocked immigration before — such as the 19th century ban on ethnic Chinese immigration and naturalization. Plus we take a look at the origin of the Philadelphia accent — in American Sign Language.
45m Dec 09, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/08/2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he wants to ban all Muslim travel to the United States. But the billionaire businessman might want to think twice about that — Trump has millions invested in various parts of the Muslim world. Plus, we head to Irving, Texas to hear about the recent protests against Muslim-Americans and their mosque there. We also hear an American family, which...
45m Dec 08, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/07/2015
We lead off the show by speaking with a psychologist about the roots of our fear of terrorist acts, and assess whether or not President Obama's address to the nation last night is likely to calm people down. Plus, we have the latest from the global climate summit in Paris. All that, and comedian Joanna Hausmann tells us about some of the crazier Christmas traditions observed across Latin America,
45m Dec 07, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/04/2015
Today we hear about the role of women in extremism. There have been women jihadis before, although most have been used to 'anchor' men to extremism rather than becoming attackers themselves. Plus, some have compared the devastating floods in India to the disaster in New Orleans after Katrina. We also hear the pros and cons of building more nuclear power plants in order to help decrease greenhou...
45m Dec 04, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/03/2015
Today, we hear a global reaction to the tragic mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. We also hear about the global market in military-style assault weapons, and compare how easy it is to get them here in the US versus other parts of the world. Plus, as the climate summit continues in Paris, we have a story about the threat posed by global warming and rising sea levels for coastal communi...
46m Dec 03, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/02/2015
The war in Syria can sometimes seem far away and impersonal, but one man, a citizen journalist in rebel-held Syria, wants to change that. Also, where are ISIS fighters in Syria getting their weapons and munitions? Plus, China is promising to clean up its act when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Is this for real this time?
46m Dec 02, 2015
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PRI's The World: 12/01/2015
The European Union pays Turkey to stop the flow of refugees and asylum seekers. Meanwhile, Germany joins in the fight against ISIS – and Germans wonder whether that makes them a target. Plus, a journalist checks out charities and offers advice on how to make your donation count.
45m Dec 01, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/30/2015
Can world leaders get their act together on climate change? That's the big question at the global climate summit, which starts today in Paris. We'll have a preview. Also, the summit is taking place amid heightened security in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks. There's also been a lot of discussion here in the US about what constitutes terrorism, after the term was widely used to desc...
45m Nov 30, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/27/2015
Despite the cold and bad weather in the Mediterranean, thousands of migrants keep trying to reach Europe. We'll have the latest. Later we hear an incredible story of a Jewish girl who survived World War II by hiding beneath the kitchen floor in the house of a woman she didn't know. Plus, we'll bring you a report from Iceland on how a warming climate is literally changing the country's landscape...
46m Nov 27, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/26/2015
Happy Thanksgiving! Today on The World, the French effort to bring Russia into a broad anti-ISIS coalition. Then we turn to Paris, where we meet a couple of Americans who call the French capital home. They reflect on the Paris attacks and the aftermath, and on the special meaning Thanksgiving has for them this year. And back here in the US, we visit Fremont, California, home to one of the count...
46m Nov 26, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/25/2015
Even under normal circumstances, Thanksgiving is a hard time to travel, but this year, the holiday season is getting under way amid a worldwide travel alert issued by the US State Department. Also today, we highlight a new series of reports about meth production and distribution in Asia. Plus, we hear how Muslims in one Canadian town are dealing with a suspected hate crime against their local m...
47m Nov 25, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/24/2015
Turkish forces shoot down a Russian fighter jet on the border between Syria and Turkey. The Turks insist the Russian plane was in their airspace, but the Russians disagree. Plus, Muslims in the West talk about occupuying a Muslim "gray zone." Also, we take a look at a couple of immigrant entrepreneurs in Los Angeles who are trying to take their success beyond their own ethnic communities.
47m Nov 24, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/23/2015
Brussels is on lockdown for the third day in a row, as authorities continue to hunt for surviving suspects in the Paris attacks. Plus, we bring you a profile of one of the many Canadians who are sponsoring Syrian refugees. We also take a look at the new leader of Argentina.
46m Nov 23, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/20/2015
We hear about a new attack — this time in the West African nation of Mali, where more than 100 people were taken hostage. Plus, a former State Department official explains how procedures have changed when dealing with the hostage standoffs. Also, it's been one week since the attacks in Paris. We check in a mother and daughter in Paris who are responded in two very different ways.
46m Nov 20, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/19/2015
The debate over allowing Syrian refugees into the United States intensifies. We have the latest. We also follow a Syrian family that was about to be resettled in Indiana, only to find themselves not welcome. Plus, a Somali mother and her daughter work to rehabilitate young people who've joined extremist groups.
46m Nov 19, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/18/2015
French police raided an apartment believed to house the man suspected of planning last Friday's attacks in Paris. We'll update what police encountered. We also hear from some residents of a Belgian neighborhood where many of the suspected attackers lived. Plus, we hear more about the vetting process for refugees seeking to settle in the United States.
47m Nov 18, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/17/2015
France's leaders want to extend the country's current state of emergency to three months. Also, the French national anthem has been sung a lot lately, but what's the song's history? Plus, do we call them ISIS, the Islamic State, or Daesh?
46m Nov 17, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/19/2015
France's leaders want to extend the country's current state of emergency to three months. Also, the French national anthem has been sung a lot lately, but what's the song's history? Plus, do we call them ISIS, the Islamic State, or Daesh?
46m Nov 17, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/16/2015
Today on The World we hear about a Europe-wide manhunt, French air strikes against ISIS and a moment of silence in Paris. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks last Friday, Parisians are trying to come to terms with what's happened. Also, we trace the Syrian passport found at the scene of one of the attacks to Greece. And how prepared are we in the US?
46m Nov 16, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/13/2015
Residents in Lebanon are trying to make sense of Thursday's bombings in Beirut. We'll speak with a blogger who witnessed the heroic action of a father of two who tried to stop the second suicide bomber. Meanwhile, conservationists in Mexico are predicting an uptick in the number of monarch butterflies headed south for the winter. And we'll send you into the weekend with some rare Brazilian musi...
48m Nov 13, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/12/2015
We hear the latest on the push to retake Sinjar. US-led airstrikes and Kurdish fighters have launched a major assault against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq to retake the town. We also head about an attempt to stem the flow of migrants hoping to enter Sweden. Plus the Russian government may have mistakenly broadcast some of its top secret nuclear plans on TV.
48m Nov 12, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/11/2015
Isaura Ramirez served as an Army captain in Iraq. She came home and battled depression and now she’s fighting that with stand-up comedy. Plus, the President’s top science advisor gets ready for the upcoming global climate talks in Paris. Those stories plus the environmental dangers of Diwali.
49m Nov 11, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/10/2015
The World Anti-Doping Agency accuses Russia of widespread, state-sponsored doping of track and field athletes. We get the view from Russia and hear from an American athlete who might benefit from Russian athletes being stripped of their medals. Plus, we profile a British imam who is also a psychologist. Using a combination of Koranic teaching and standard therapy, he's helping Muslim couples in...
49m Nov 10, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/09/2015
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet for the first time in more than a year. Plus, we hear the story of a Palestinian living in a mostly Jewish Israeli building in Tel Aviv. He's lived there for years, but one of his neighbors left a note in the building recently, saying there's an Arab living among us. Soon a selfie next to the note went viral. Also, a Russ...
49m Nov 09, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/06/2015
Sierra Leone celebrates the end of the Ebola outbreak this weekend. But is it really the end? Plus, we talk about race in the US with Gary Younge. He's British, he's black and he used to live in the US, working as a columnist for Britain's Guardian newspaper. So he has an unusual perspective on issues such as racism and immigration. And also, Donald Trump is scheduled to host NBC's Saturday Nig...
49m Nov 06, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/05/2015
We bring the latest on the investigation into what brought down that Russian plane in Egypt. We also hear about the Mexican Supreme Court ruling that opens the door for the legalization of marijuana for personal use in the country. Plus, did you hear the one about the ancient tree in England that appears to have changed its gender? We'll have the details.
48m Nov 05, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/04/2015
China's polluting more than originally thought. What does that mean for the rest of the world? We also hear what the meeting between the presidents of China and Taiwan means to someone whose own family history has been shaped by the decades-old divide. Plus: Fish guts in Guinness stout. You heard that right. Guinness has been using a gelatin byproduct of fish bladder in its beer — but the compa...
48m Nov 04, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/03/2015
Officials on the Greek island of Lesbos have declared a three-day period of mourning this week in remembrance of those migrants who've drowned near its shores. Also, we go to Brazil, to hear how efforts to "pacify" Rio's slums, or favelas, ahead of the Olympics next year have fallen short. Plus, 1,000 music fans in Italy create a video and persuade the Foo Fighters to come play in their small t...
48m Nov 03, 2015
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PRI's The World: 11/02/2015
Russian investigators are still trying to determine what brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula this past weekend. All 224 people on board were killed, most of them Russians on their way back from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. We also hear how popular Sharm el-Sheikh is as a destination for Russian tourists, and ask if Egypt's tourism industry can recover from th...
47m Nov 02, 2015
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PRI's The World: 10/30/2015
Representatives from the United States, Russia and a number of other nations are gathering in Vienna, Austria, to look at ways to end the civil war in Syria. Plus, we hear the story of Azam, a young Syrian refugee who went missing in Belgrade a few weeks ago. Activists started a Twitter campaign, #FindAzam — and they did. We also take you to the ruins of Castle Frankenstein, which was home to a...
49m Oct 30, 2015
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PRI's The World: 10/29/2015
China officially ends its "one child" policy. We also hear more about the dangers migrants in Europe face as the cold weather starts to settle in. Plus, we explore how the word "Texas" has entered the Persian language.
49m Oct 29, 2015
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PRI's The World: 9/15/2014
A Minneapolis teen disappears and then surfaces in Syria. Her family fears she may have been recruited by militants. Also, a group of American doctors heads to the Ebola outbreak zone. And Grimms' fairy tales get a new English translation — darker, but also funnier.
48m Sep 15, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/12/2014
How does the so-called "coalition" expect to tackle the ISIS threat and how exactly does ISIS recruit young Western women to their cause? Plus, a visit to a building in Venezuela that's been dubbed "the world's largest squat," and how the government is now trying to clear it out. And, a look at this weekend's New York dance-fest, Turntables on the Hudson.
49m Sep 12, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/11/2014
13 years after the Al-Qaeda attacks of September 11th, America once again braces for war. But President Obama says it's a different target and a different kind of war. This time, the target is the Islamic State — or ISIS — and the war, the President says, will involve targeted air strikes and very few boots on the ground. Plus, we'll take you to Libya, where the talk is of the second anniversar...
48m Sep 11, 2014
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9/10/2014
President Obama will outline his plans to combat the extremist group, ISIS. We'll assess ISIS's military capabilities. Also, we have the incredible story of the Green Prince. The son of a Hamas leader, he's recruited by Israeli intelligence to spy on his family and his own people. And, from Shanghai — Western actors who get cast as the "experts" in Chinese ads for everything from long underwear...
49m Sep 10, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/09/2014
We go to Baghdad to take the pulse of the Iraqi public ahead of Obama's speech tomorrow. The President is expected to outline a strategy to combat a militant group that calls itself the Islamic State. Also, selling Toyotas in Tripoli — militants love to retro-fit Toyota's pickup trucks as weapons of war, and dealers are bound by contract to refuse to sell to anybody who might "use the products ...
49m Sep 09, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/8/2014
An American convert to militant Islam now favors peace, but explains why young Muslims feel drawn to jihad. Also, we begin an occasional series on the joys and challenges of translation. Plus, we go behind the scenes of a popular Nigerian radio soap opera.
49m Sep 08, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/05/2014
NATO's plans for deterring Russian aggression are on the battlefield — and online. Also, Israelis look across their border with Syria and see al Qaeda. And a Canadian DJ takes on Disney in a fight over mouse ears.
49m Sep 05, 2014
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PRI's The World: 09/04/2014
Thursday on The World, we look at why the Ebola crisis isn't getting a full crisis response. Also, how multiple foreign crises are putting American power to the test. And, why chess fans worldwide are focusing on St. Louis.
49m Sep 04, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/03/2014
President Obama pledges continued support for former Soviet countries. Also, how hospital operating rooms could get airline-style black boxes. And an amazing tale of undercover cops in London and their deceits and double lives.
48m Sep 03, 2014
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PRI's The World: 9/02/2014
We have the latest on the apparent beheading American hostage Steven Sotloff. Plus, NATO says it will send thousands of troops to eastern Europe in light of the crisis in Ukraine. Russia has countered by calling NATO a threat and vowing to change its military doctrine in response. And a photographer who grew up on a farm in Iowa and then moved overseas to ply his trade. He's now back after year...
48m Sep 02, 2014
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