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People in countries fraught with violence and oppression may have a secret weapon that may temporarily relieve some of that suffering. His name is Yanni.
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Updated | 2024-11-26 08:45 |
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Sisters Claire and Lola Hartley were born with microcephaly, a neurological condition that causes babies to develop smaller heads and underdeveloped brains. Scientists believe there's a link between this and the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Gwen Hartley is the mother of the two girls.
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Since arriving in office, President Barack Obama has grappled with issues and questions of race and racism in America. And there's a chance that his replacement could have a chance to build on his progress.
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What happens when no one is in charge at a camp that shelters migrants in northern France? "Total anarchy," says one charity worker.
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The Zika virus, which is believed to be connected to thousands of cases of microcephaly in Brazil, has been known for decades in East Africa. But its reputation there is very different.
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Americans have a hard enough time understanding what the Caucus really is in Iowa. So how do foreign journalists cope with explaining it too their audiences back home?
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If you're confused about Zika, we get it. It’s confusing. But it's also serious — as the WHO declared today.
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The Mexican cabaret performer Astrid Hadad describes herself in a variety of ways: Singer. Artist. Costume designer. Political provocateur. And she recently brought her act to New York City.
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There's been murmurs about "bike doping" for years. This weekend finally offered some proof. The International Cycling Union found a motor inside a competitor's bike.
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Burundi’s leader seems hellbent on dragging his country into more ethnic violence.
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​There is a huge natural gas leak in California’s Aliso Canyon, and here’s why it’s so bad
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Coal-fired power plants in the US are working to comply with new EPA rules limiting mercury and sulfur dioxide. New equipment and other measures are being taken because of clean air rules the Obama administration imposed on the coal industry. It is a massive undertaking.
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Human beings evolved to have bright days, and dark nights. But as electric lights have spread and gotten brighter, we're no longer getting the darkness that we need.
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Iowa has a history of welcoming refugees and Muslims into their state. And days before the state caucuses take place, immigration takes center stage.
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Peace talks for the Syrian civil war struggled to get off the ground in Geneva Friday. Some observers think the loss of hope for peace will trigger an even more massive exodus of refugees.
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Record producer and DJ Michael Brun is from Port-au-Prince, but is now based in Miami. For his latest project, Brun wanted to go back to Haiti and record a song. He recorded the song with students at an arts institute and connected with a non-profit that helps raise money for the arts in Haiti.
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Ted Cruz is running neck-and-neck with Donald Trump in Iowa, with just days to go before the Iowa Caucuses. If he were elected, what would that mean for foreign policy?
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The French refugee camp's population has increased by nearly 5000 percent in just five months
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In 1986, the Soviet Union was opening up to the West. And just like in the US, Soviets reacted to the space shuttle disaster in horror.
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The last time we were talking about Europe facing "the worst refugee crisis since World War II," we were talking about people fleeing the war in Bosnia. Some of them made their way to the United States, where they are still adapting, and sometimes still longing for home.
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In a country with restrictive abortion laws, the Zika virus is changing the debate.
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These days, it’s a lot easier to travel between the US and Cuba, but some Cubans have no interest in going back to their homeland. That’s especially true for many transgender Cubans.
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I held a 34-year grudge against my Honduran father for my lack of Spanish fluency. So I reported to find out the true reason, only to realize it was my own damn fault.
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Fears of terrorism and other threats have led many democracies to increase surveillance of Internet users, and to pressure Internet companies to censor information and share user data. Authoritarian governments have been doing that all along. What rights do you have, and what rights do you want, in the midst of all this? How are different companies protecting your privacy and digital rights? Rebecca MacKinnon, a former China correspondent and current director of the Ranking Digital Rights Project at the New America Foundation, gives some answers, and shares her concerns.
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Millennials in ever greater numbers are coming to support a rapid transition to a clean energy economy. Tom Steyer, a philanthropist and "green" financier wants to ride this wave to help build a better future for the planet
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One of the nation's leading preventive medicine panels recommended that pregnant women and women who have just given birth be screened for depression by a doctor.
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Italians have spent decades considering whether to legalize civil unions for gays. This week Italian parliamentarians may finally act.
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Concepcion Picciotto's vigil outside of the White House lasted for more than three decades.
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Rio de Janeiro is a week away from its annual Carnival celebration and just months away from hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics. Now it finds itself battling the spread of a the Zika virus and calming the throngs who are expected to come to Rio.
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St. Cloud, Minnesota, is home to a large diaspora of Somali refugees. But long time residents aren't happy about it.
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The Zika virus is expected to spread across much of the Americas, but a vaccine is still years away.
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The future of green energy is no longer seen as tied to fluctuations in the fossil fuel market.
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Thanks to the lifting of US sanctions, weavers from Iran are prepping their fine rugs for the American market.
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The situations encountered by the five sisters in the film are all too realistic, as Deniz Ergüven's research revealed. "You, as a girl, are perceived as sexual."
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Chef Dominique Crenn, owner of Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, is from Brittany. It's a place she holds dear and describes as very rustic, very raw. She says it's like a painting: It's cold, it's windy, it could be rainy at times — it's life in itself, nature in itself. There is nothing manicured about it.
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Police have now reached out to the Vietnamese community in Orange County's Little Saigon for help in recapturing the three inmates who escaped from the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana, California
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Erik Jensen was 17 when he witnessed a friend kill his mom. That led to a life sentence in prison — but now the US Supreme Court may have given Jensen a chance at eventual release.
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After British media reported that Prime Minister David Cameron spoke in private about the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women, he was set straight by large group of smart (and sarcastic) women of the Islamic faith.
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Denmark passed legislation enabling the country to seize assets from asylum seekers. Supporters say it treats the people just like Danes. But people fleeing war are a bit different from people in need of a job.
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Sainkho Namtchylak is one of a kind. You can even hear in her speaking voice that buzz, that resonance that allows her body to make the sounds we in the west generically call throat singing. On her recent album, she teamed up with a Touareg rock ensemble from Mali, Tinawaren.
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Maine is home to many Somali refugees in the US, but fitting in hasn’t always been easy. There's even tension among Somali communities — between those who arrived first and those who came later. That also plays out at public schools in Lewiston, Maine’s second largest city.
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There are frequent protests in Calais, where the largest camp in France for migrants is located. But is was the appalling living conditions at Grande-Synthe, 30 miles away, that got the attention of Doctors Without Borders. Migrants there try to find the best ways to cope — for many men, that means becoming regulars in a local café. Some in the town even call it 'the Migrants' Café.'
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Can Denver continue to redesign itself to create an economy of young creatives that avoids the pitfalls seen in other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco and New York?
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A curious mix comes out of Bogota courtesy of Monsieur Periné. They're a gypsy swing/cumbia/dance act that makes you feel like there's a fatigue with more conventional music. The World's Marco Werman met members of the group this weekend.
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The exact cause of more than a dozen strandings of sperm whales in recent days in the North Sea region is eluding scientists.
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El Salvador has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the hemisphere. And advocates hope that El Salvador's recommendation that women hold off getting pregnant until 2018 will spur a conversation about the country's laws around reproduction in general.
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Unlike some prominent actors of color, who are not receiving recognition from the Academy for roles they portray, Latinos aren't even getting the parts.
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People are wearing parkas inside to deal with frigid temps after a cold snap hit Taiwan. Dozens have died. It's a once in a generation cold front passing through the island.
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