by Chris Harland-Dunaway on (#6EHVK)
Amie Ferris-Rotman, a global news editor for New Lines Magazine, wrote a personal essay about her experience being pregnant in Russia, where many citizens believe it is a woman's patriotic duty to give birth and become a mother.She talked about it with The World's Marco Werman.
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by Sara Hassan on (#6EH18)
The walk culminates in the city of Karbala to remember the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Husayn.
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by April Peavey on (#6EFKN)
As we wrap up Planet Hip Hop," our summer series celebrating 50 years of hip-hop music around the world, H. Samy Alim returns to talk with host Marco Werman about the next 50 years. Alim is an anthropology professor and the director of the Hip Hop Initiative at UCLA.
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by Kirk Carapezza, Lex Weaver, The World staff on (#6EG09)
In the US, interest on student loans started accruing again on Sept. 1. Soon, more than 40 million borrowers will have to resume their payments. The US is an outlier when it comes to high tuition and the debts that students take on.
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by Emily Haavik on (#6EG0A)
European countries that border the Rhine River are working together to restore an old migration route, but manmade structures present a major hurdle.
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by Leila Goldstein on (#6ECRX)
Most Cambodians live in rural areas, with many struggling to make a living on small farms. Even with low public school tuition fees, sending a child to college is nearly impossible. Those who want a higher education must be resourceful.
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by Rebecca Rosman on (#6EBNA)
Foxes have played a role London's landscape for a century. But they're being increasingly seen as pests, who raid trash cans and cause fear and annoyance. Reporter Rebecca Rosman talks to a photographer and a historian who want to celebrate the foxes of London.
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by Joshua Coe on (#6EBYB)
Borrowers in the US and the UK rack up the highest debt in the world. In Denmark, tuition is free and students are given grants to pay for things like food and housing. Hardly anyone takes out loans, but free education comes with a price.
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by Tibisay Zea on (#6E9G7)
At least seven people are dead after a protest led by a pastor marched through a gang-controlled suburb of the capital.
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by Gerry Hadden on (#6E9DG)
Spain's on the rebound with tourism after huge losses during the pandemic. Those in the tourism business are relieved. But visitors are back with a vengeance and they're not always well-behaved, irking locals who miss the quieter days.
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by Daniel Ofman on (#6E88E)
Jamala, an Indigenous Crimean Tatar, often talks about how her heritage shapes her music. Her new album, Qirim," or Crimea," is a sort of ode to her country, with 14 epic Crimean Tatar folk songs.
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by Daniel Ofman on (#6E7YQ)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has consolidated power over the last two decades. Yet, as the country prepares for regional elections next month, opposition voices are encouraging a protest vote."
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by Tibisay Zea on (#6E532)
A combination of a patriarchal culture and weak laws allow for many fathers to skip parental obligations and get away with it.
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by Joyce Hackel on (#6E533)
Many questions remain a day after the reported death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Kimberly Marten, who has studied the Wagner Group and testified about it on Capitol Hill. She is also a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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by Levi Bridges on (#6E4YA)
In 1916, Russian announced a draft to enlist Native peoples in modern-day Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to support Russia in World War I. The Russians killed thousands of people who resisted, and some 100,000 more people died trying to flee to China. More than a century later the episode is still difficult to talk about because of efforts by Russia to erase it from the history books.
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by Michael Fox on (#6E3Y8)
In Nicaragua, last week, a judge ordered the seizure of the country's most-important Jesuit university, the 63-year-old Central American University. It's the latest in an ongoing government crackdown on the Catholic Church and church-affiliated institutions inside Nicaragua.
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by Gisele Regatão on (#6E7YR)
Mugre Sur is known for their deeply political songs - and also their sense of humor. They're tackling Ecuador's political turmoil in their upcoming album, Sudamericamente."
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by Orla Barry on (#6E1ST)
The mysterious demolition of a lopsided 18th-century pub in England has infuriated the local community and raised questions about the loss of British heritage and the demise of the country's famous pub culture.
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by Gerry Hadden on (#6E1W7)
Supporters are hoping their win leads to greater equality in professional soccer.
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by Tibisay Zea on (#6DZES)
Two human rights advocacy groups have listed hundreds of incidents of human rights violations by immigration officials that include physical violence, verbal abuse and sexual harassment - including some cases that have been fatal.
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by Rebecca Rosman on (#6DZCQ)
Britain's National Health Service is known as a model of free health care for UK citizens. But as the public institution celebrates its 75th year, patients face long wait times at doctors' offices and hospitals. Some say the system needs more funding; others argue that either citizens need to pay for at least a part of their care or private companies should play a greater role.
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by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein on (#6DZET)
People of faith gathered in Chicago this week to talk about something that doesn't sound very religious. And that's authoritarianism. It wasn't a traditional political rally for a specific candidate. They're taking part in the Parliament of the World's Religions, an interfaith convening that first took place in the late 1800s. People from many different religious traditions took part.
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by Manuel Rueda on (#6DYEE)
In Colombia's capital city Bogota, pedestrians need to watch out for loose slabs of pavement they can trip over, or wobbly tiles that get their feet wet or splash dirty water on their pants. But some activists have started trying to shame the city into making repairs more quickly by covering the broken spots with pink paint and black Xs.
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by Michael Fox on (#6DXBZ)
The tiny Central American country of Costa Rica is known as a green paradise. But climate change is hitting the country in a multitude of ways, including increasing its risk from storms and natural disasters. Nowhere is the shifting planet being felt more than in some of the country's most iconic parks and reserves, where ecosystems are changing rapidly.
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by Daniel Ofman on (#6DXC0)
This coming school year, high school students in Russia will receive new history textbooks. They offer a rewritten rendition of Russian history that reflects the Kremlin's narrative about the war in Ukraine. The textbooks are part of a wider effort by the state to tighten control over the flow of information.
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by Fabian Garcia on (#6DXC1)
In 2020, the Korean film "Parasite" made history at the Oscars when it became thefirst non-English language film to win best picture. But before "Parasite," there was a different Korean film occupying the international cinematic landscape: a 2003 movie called "Oldboy." It's being rereleased in theaters on Wednesday for its 20th anniversary.
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by Mitch Borden on (#6DW4S)
Odessa bears the scars of a blast that killed everything in its path. That's Odessa, Texas. It was hit by a meteor about 60,000 years ago. Today it is the best-preserved impact crater on Earth. Fulbright scholar Ania Losiak from Poland has been studying the crater, looking for what she describes as the meteor's "murderous behavior" to see how mankind can be prepared for the next one. Mitch Borden, of Marfa Public Radio, met her at the crater to learn more about her work.
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by Raksha Kumar on (#6DW4T)
Across the world, higher economic growth has seen a rise in women's employment, according to the United Nations. But India is bucking that trend, where educated women are working less in paid positions.
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by Durrie Bouscaren on (#6DVA0)
Six months after twin earthquakes devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria, the residents who remain are carving out a life amid the rubble.
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by Alan Ruiz Terol on (#6DS1G)
Millions of Europeans, especially from Italy and Spain, migrated to Argentina between the 19th and 20th centuries. Their descendants are now reclaiming their rights to return to Europe.
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by Joyce Hackel on (#6DRZD)
Archeologists and craftspeople are building a village and monastery following, for the first time, the only blueprint that survived the early Middle Ages - a medieval plan for a utopian community sketched on calfskin.
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by April Peavey on (#6DS1H)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, The World's Marco Werman looks at women who are rocking the mic across the globe. He dives in with Msia Kibona Clark from the department of African Studies at Howard University and host of the "Hip Hop African" podcast.
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by Sara Hassan on (#6DR05)
Fisherman Pennel Ames tossed hundreds of messages in bottles into the ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, asking anyone who found them to write back to him. Two decades later, people are still finding them around the world.
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by Meklit Hadero, Ian Coss on (#6DPWR)
Thirty years ago, war raged in the city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, where Gino Yevdjevich was once a pop artist. In our latest segment of Movement," our series on music and migration, we hear how this conflict changed Gino's life and led him to create the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.
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by Tibisay Zea on (#6DPWS)
Peru is the world's largest exporter of shark fins, according to the marine protection organization Oceana. The catches are usually sent to Asia, where shark fin soup is a delicacy that can cost about $200 a bowl. This lucrative trade is threatening species of sharks off the coasts of Peru and neighboring Ecuador.
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by Sarah Betancourt on (#6DPWT)
Calling it a humanitarian crisis, Governor Maura Healey has activated the National Guard to support migrants at Joint Base Cape Cod and launched two welcome centers in Boston and Quincy. But the influx of desperate people is so great that families are flooding nonprofits and local hospitals.
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by Joyce Hackel on (#6DNVR)
Since Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, its troops have been attacking Ukraine's ports, destroying 220,000 metric tons of grain in the past week alone. But US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the grain deal could be brought back to life.
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by Marco Werman on (#6DNVS)
The iconic East Los Angeles band Los Lobos is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Their blend of rock 'n' roll and traditional Mexican music has stayed consistent over generations. Members of the band, which formed when they were in high school, reflect with The World's host Marco Werman on their staying power.
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by Carolyn Beeler on (#6DMR1)
In order to prevent Russian troops from advancing toward Kyiv, Ukrainian forces destroyed a dam on the Irpin River early on in the war. The flooding, as it turned out, created new wetland areas. Some conservationists hope to see the wetlands stay. Even residents whose cellars remain flooded are glad the water came and the Russian troops did not.
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by Gerry Hadden on (#6DMR2)
Europe's final victims of a drug scandal dating back more than half a century are finally being compensated. Partially, at least.
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by Emily Files on (#6DMR3)
Seon Joo Oh, a grandmother in her 60s, teaches Korean cooking classes at the Milwaukee Recreation Department. She says her own grandmother back in South Korea lived to be 105 years old and told her that you're never too old to learn something new. Now she wants to pass that on to her community in the US.
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by Manuel Rueda on (#6DJEM)
A six-month ceasefire between the Colombian government and the rebel group known as the National Liberation Army began this month. Support for the truce, and ongoing peace talks, could depend on whether the group ceases attacks on civilians that include kidnappings and extortion.
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by Joshua Coe on (#6DJEN)
Shells, bombs and hand grenades are still found across Belgium on a daily basis. Every year, a special unit removes over 150 metric tons of unexploded ordnance.
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by Carolyn Beeler on (#6DJEP)
Ukraine is now considered the most heavily mined country in the world. Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnances since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. And about a third of the country needs to be cleared of these explosives. Much of that land is farmland.
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by Lex Weaver on (#6DHGY)
As part of our summer series, "Planet Hip Hop," we take you to South Korea, where hip-hop found its footing in the 1990s.Haekyung Um has written extensively about Korean pop culture and also teaches global popular music and Asian music industries at the University of Liverpool. Shejoined The World's host Marco Werman to talk about the evolution of hip-hop and rap in South Korea.
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by Orla Barry on (#6DHBA)
The Nordic nation is the third-largest exporter of pop music in the world, after the US and the UK. But musicians in Sweden are worried that the country's changing political climate could endanger this great Swedish success story.
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by Daniel Ofman on (#6DGE2)
Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh are seeing shortages in basic necessities and are calling on the US and EU to step in.
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by Emily Haavik on (#6DFCR)
A recent survey indicates much less species growth in Germany's Black Forest. Two plant species have gone extinct, and several more will likely disappear in the next 15 years.
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by Carolyn Beeler on (#6DFCS)
Nearly a year and a half into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its impact has been felt most acutely in lost lives, flattened cities and destroyed infrastructure. But the environmental damage from combat has also contaminated Ukraine's soil, water and air, at a cost the government is estimating to be $56 billion. This impact is likely to be one of the longest-lasting legacies of the war, persisting for decades after the fighting stops.
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by Prue Clarke, Anthony Stephens on (#6DFA4)
Liberia has been on and off the State Department's human trafficking watch list for years. In this desperately poor country, people accept jobs from agents to work as domestic servants in other countries. Usually, they are trapped, earning little money and subject to abuse. But several hundred Liberian women used social media to escape their traffickers in 2022.
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