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We feature a unique selection of music on The World. Here are a few of the artists we've played recently.
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The World: Latest Stories
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| Updated | 2025-07-09 23:30 |
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She was forced to work in a sweatshop — now she runs her own shop and helps other women avoid being trafficked.
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Kinda Haddad is one of a group of eight people who work daily to document civilian deaths from airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.
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Trump tried to ice out the intelligence community from his effort to create a back channel to Russia
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It's clear now that Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the US were working on creating a secret back channel between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin specifically designed to bypass the intelligence community.
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Trafficking is now the third-largest international criminal activity, with $32 billion annually in profit, and millions of people affected. And it's growing. Across Women's Lives tells this story by giving voice to the women themselves in a 12-part, global multimedia series that starts May 18.
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Today, the practice of apprehending immigrants and holding them in custody has created a shadow prison system, complete with hundreds of federal and private facilities throughout the country.
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Dave McNeer spread Donald Trump’s message in Iowa. Here’s what "Make America Great Again" means to him.
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In a poor region of western China, hundreds of thousands of people are being relocated in the face of climate change.
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Little over eight months since they impeached their last president, now Brazil's Michel Temer is facing demands for impeachment and new elections amid a scandal around alleged illicit payments to a jailed politician.
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The killing of a high-profile reporter, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, has sparked outrage throughout the country.
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In an interview with The World, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff says, "Everyone is asking quite rightly, 'Where does this all lead?'"
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Israeli intelligence officials have told BuzzFeed News that their "worst fears" are coming true. They are furious with President Donald Trump over his sharing of classified intelligence to the Russians.
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For 21 years, the Dutch king has flown twice a month as co-pilot without passengers knowing.
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Did the Trump leaks to Russian officials damage US intelligence relationships?
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Russia never expected Donald Trump to become president, but Russian leaders are probably benefiting from the ups and downs that have filled the president's first months in office.
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Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to work through strained ties despite the Turkish leader's stern warning about Washington's arming of a Kurdish militia.
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A project underway in Washington, DC, is helping to protect habitats for struggling songbirds coming up from the Caribbean and Latin America. And children whose families come from the same regions as the birds are helping out.
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Identity, integration and Islam were critical issues in the Dutch spring elections in the Netherlands. At the heart of the debate was who belongs in the Netherlands.
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President Trump "probably out of ignorance or disinterest" told visiting Russians intelligence that "was not ours to share," says a former CIA and NSA chief.
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The migrant death rate on the Mediterranean is so far triple that of last year.
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What security measures can users take against cyberattacks? And in the event of a successful ransomware intrusion, should users pay for their data?
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The malicious "ransomware" virus that first emerged on Friday has left Russians wondering why the attack had disproportionately targeted their country.
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How one community group is helping low-income residents — many of them immigrants — realize their tenant rights.
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President Truman is the only man in history to have ordered a nuclear attack, in Japan at the end of World War II.
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As the permafrost melts in the arctic town of Iqaliut, people are dealing with problems they never saw coming. What are the Canadian and local governments doing to help?
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Whether it's a solid line or a dotted line, it's all politics.
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Back in the 1850s, the US military created a Camel Corps for exploring desert territory and expanding the American frontier. That's how Philip Tedro, aka Hadji Ali, aka Hi Jolly, came to the US.
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The Obama administration rule gave authority to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to regulate hunting in certain areas of Alaska. Congress wants to return authority to the state. Now a lawsuit is pending.
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“There are black cosplayers in Canada, black cosplayers in the United Kingdom, black cosplayers in the Netherlands, and it's just so, so beautiful to look at.â€
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Meet the woman who designed the stage makeup for the actors portraying the women who practically invented modern makeup.
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Mary Webster, believed to be a witch, was hanged by members of her early Massachusetts community, in an act that preceded the Salem witch hysteria of 1692. She survived a long night dangling from a tree and inspired the author Margaret Atwood.
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Behind the scenes of the magazine's startling interview with the US president.
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US climate experts will be asked how the country plans to meet carbon emission reductions with President Trump's new environmental policies.
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Back in March, a Category 4 cyclone hit the island of Madagascar. At least 81 people were killed and 6,000 others were displaced. The cyclone also washed away one of the island's main sources of income: vanilla.
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The pope is visiting the shrine this month to canonize a brother and sister who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago.
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NASA and high-tech billionaires aren't the only ones who want to get to the red planet.
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The Trump administration is contemplating extending a ban on laptops on US-bound flights to all European countries, and that has some aviation security experts scratching their heads.
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Amid mounting pressure from European leaders, Facebook and other social media companies are taking steps to combat the spread of fake news.
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The coverage of the firing of James Comey as director of the FBI has been extensive, and in some cases, dramatic. Many people are bandying about terms like autocrat, fascist, demagogue, failed state and of course, constitutional crisis. So, we thought it might be useful to define these terms.
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The creator of MuslimGirl.com reflects on how "this little thing that I started in my bedroom when I was a teenager has really grown to take on a life of its own."
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The nuclear threat from North Korea is a big deal. But in South Korea, some Catholic leaders see a different nuclear problem, right in their own backyard. Catholic clergy are taking the lead in protests against South Korea's dependence on nuclear energy.
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"They make me bleed inside every time I talk to them," says Saber Askar, a US citizen from Yemen, with family still in the war-torn country. "I don’t know what to do. Every time I call, I’m afraid they're not going to answer anymore."
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It may look like something designed by a mad cartoonist, but it is the actual nose of the star-nosed mole and it is one of the most sensitive organs in the mammalian world.
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Trump's shock dismissal of James Comey — the man overseeing federal investigations into suspected Kremlin interference in the 2016 vote — has sparked a political firestorm in Washington and plunged his young presidency in turmoil.
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Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.
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Jeffrey Rosen, a professor of law at George Washington University and president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, says President Donald Trump was acting within his authority when he dismissed FBI director James Comey.
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In 2015, the University of Cambridge offered places to 1,788 male undergraduates. But only 15 of those undergraduates were black.
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Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president.
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President Trump fired his FBI Director. Cartoonists: pick up your pencils.
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Veterans tell us what they think of a plan that might increase the US presence in Afghanistan.
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