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Oil and mining industries stand to gain as the US backs out of a rule to prevent overseas oil bribery.
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| Updated | 2025-11-27 18:30 |
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Britons are having a tough time shopping for vegetables. Lettuce, broccoli and zucchini are among the greens in short supply — so short that supermarkets are rationing them.
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Trump's "dumb deal" comment has put the spotlight on the plight of Australia's refugees. About 2,000 of them are detained in offshore camps and some have been there for years.
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Just weeks before French voters head to the polls, the presidential front-runner is fighting for his political life. And the far right's Marine Le Pen is poised to ride a populist wave to power.
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Gasem al-Hamad and his family live in California, safe from the war in Syria. But now Hamad's brother is stuck in Jordan because of President Donald Trump's suspension of the US Syrian refugee program. It's unknown when the family may be reunited.
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Thirty years ago a new music genre appeared in record stores. But do we even need it anymore?
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When NOAA revised upward its historical data of rising sea surface temperatures, some GOP elected officials went berserk. Now, an independent study confirms NOAA's data.
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For the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders with virtually no involvement from his Cabinet, Congress or federal agencies. Former ambassador and White House official Stuart Eizenstat says Trump's breakneck pace could backfire.
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Nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz talks about the challenges that the Trump administration will face.
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The Trump administration has put Iran "on notice' after a missile test. But confronting Iran militarily would be challenging. US troops stationed in Iraq would be extremely vulnerable.
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Violence in eastern Ukraine is spinning out of control again. Some analysts think Vladimir Putin may be exploiting Donald Trump’s apparent disinterest in the Ukraine conflict.
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As more and more migrants head to Paris, the shelters can't keep pace. Recently, the international NGO Doctors Without Borders brought in a mobile clinic to serve homeless migrants in the French capital.
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"It plays into the narrative that the United States is against the whole of Islam, and administers collective punishment to Muslims."
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“I think when people close their eyes and think of who a scientist is, they don't see a woman,†says Rachel Ignotofsky. Her new book aims to change that.
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Scientists from Iran loom large in the history of American innovation, but some Iranian Americans are considering moving elsewhere.
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Leo Goldberger was smuggled out of Denmark to Sweden during the Nazi-occupation. He's upset by President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Sarmad Assali, an Orthodox Christian in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supported Donald Trump for president. She was stunned this weekend when his refugee and immigration restrictions meant her relatives were deported back to Damascus.
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At a time when they’re feeling under threat, Texas Muslims flocked to the city of Austin this week to take part in the annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day. Huge numbers of supporters turned out too. But some of the conversations between Muslim voters and state lawmakers are difficult ones.
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The sculpture that later became the Statue of Liberty was meant to represent a woman in Arab dress, standing at the entrance to the Suez Canal.
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Trump's talk of massive tariffs has economists alarmed.
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A 19-year-old Iraqi Kurd and his family were prevented from coming to the US by President Donald Trump's immigration order. Now they are cleared for entry, and as the family regroups, friends and strangers in America are rallying to their support.
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Kinan Azmeh, an award-winning composer and a performer in Yo-Yo Ma’s ensemble, lives in New York. He also happens to be a green card holder born in Syria.
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Trump reminds these Iranians of their former leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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The Trump administration has responded angrily to the leak of a dissent memo from foreign service officers criticizing the president's executive order on immigration. Here's how those diplomats are making their feelings known: It's called the "dissent channel."
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The Canadian city isn't used to the kind of violence it experienced over the weekend, when a gunman killed six worshippers praying at a mosque and wounded five others.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was born in Baghdad but used to visit Mosul with his family frequently. Today, Mosul is nothing like what Abdul-Ahad remembers.
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Many Sudanese Americans are political refugees with deep roots in the US and strong ties back home. Now, some face hard choices.
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On a rainy night, people filed past several police officers and packed into City Hall. They were there to debate whether Newton should position itself as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants.
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"We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall."
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Mark Krikorian says Trump's executive order is not a ban on Muslims, but just a temporary measure while the US secures its borders.
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This author wanted to tell @realdonaldtrump how his travel ban executive order could backfire, by discouraging Iraqi interpreters and allies from helping the US in the fight against ISIS.
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Over the weekend, hundreds of people arriving at US airports were detained, handcuffed and interrogated about their visas or green cards. Thousands of volunteer attorneys have stepped up to help them.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sparked chaos and confusion throughout the US, and parts of the world. It limits who can enter the US from seven Muslim-majority countries — in the name of "extreme vetting." Thousands of people were caught up in the aftermath.
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Denise Ajiri has legal permanent residence in the US. She cannot go back to Iran because she is a journalist who has worked for US-government backed media.
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Juliette Kayyem was an official in the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Obama and is now an analyst for various media. She says the ban on Muslims from seven nations entering the US will be a big problem for her former colleagues.
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In an executive memorandum signed on Saturday, Trump elevated Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, while downgrading the status of the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the security council's principals committee.
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Without a nation of their own, the Kurds have been fighting oppression for centuries, all the way to the present day. In fact, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers are key forces right now in the battle against ISIS. But Kurdish history — a story of persecution, war and resilience — is largely untold. A new museum would help change that.
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The Psyche mission will explore a huge metal asteroid, and Lucy will explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
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As it turns out, picky adolescent behavior is natural — and can actually be an asset to the maturing brain.
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It's the ideological forefather of many radical Islamist groups. But past US administrations have refrained from putting the Muslim Brotherhood on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Now, the Trump White House is considering doing just that.
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But in reality, researchers say automation could come much sooner — or later. One of the report’s authors dives in to the factors in play.
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President Donald Trump has promised to bring back coal miners’ jobs and reopen the mines, attracting broad support in Pennsylvania’s coal country.
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. But the day isn't just about World War II. It also recognizes Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur — other genocides. PRI's The World's Marco Werman remembers the day.
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Ali Soufan is among the few people who have interrogated suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. He didn't use force to get them to talk. He used tea.
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Some from Latin America say Washington has historically imposed "a sort of imperialism" in its funding for global groups that offer family planning advice, including access to abortion.
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Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.
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Back in the 1960s, there were fewer than 10 lion dancer troupes participating in the Lunar New Year parade in New York's China. Today it’s more like 40 or 50.
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Older Russian Americans in Boston are applauding the Putin-Trump thing. Millennials just say 'nyet.'
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Boston's Allston neighborhood is a hub for the local Russian community. US-Russia relations have been a source of political intrigue this election season. So with the election of Donald Trump, many in Allston are keeping close tabs on the relationship between the US President and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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America's global leadership over the past century hasn't always been perfect, but it's usually been respected. That may be changing under President Trump. But the new US president's words and actions are also mobilizing those who have a different idea of what makes America great, and who don't want to see it disappear.
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After some awkward preparations — the White House misspelled Theresa May’s name a few times — the two leaders survived their first big diplomatic moment together.
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