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Archive for January, 2010
Halabja Kurds celebrate
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Download MP3Anchor Marco Werman speaks with New York Times reporter Sam Dagher in Halabja, the Iraqi town that was subjected to a poison gas attack in 1988. Residents there celebrated the execution of the attack’s mastermind, a man known as “Chemical Ali.”
Gaza support for Hamas waning
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Download MP3The popularity of the Islamic militant group, Hamas, among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip may be on the decline. Hamas won elections in 2006, but as Linda Gradstein reports, Gazans are not happy with its leadership.
Geo Quiz
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Geo Answer
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Download MP3For today’s Geo Quiz we were looking for Australia’s southern-most state where today Australia Day celebrations kicked off with great food and traditional games. The answer is Tasmania. Producer Jake Warga sends an Australia Day audio postcard.
Ca Tru
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An ancient form of Vietnamese music is making a comeback. Ca Tru was once the music of royal courts. Later, it became the music of prostitutes and courtesans. When the Communist Party first came to power, it banned the music. But in recent years, the government’s eased up on its moralistic stance. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad checked it out on a recent trip to Hanoi. Download MP3Music Heard on Air for January 26, 2010
Tunes Spun On The Word Between our reports for January 26, 2010. Artists featured are Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra, Kaouding Cissoko, Heitor Pereira, Doug Smith, Jesse Cook.
New York’s polyglot cops, Arabic online, and the planet’s most difficult language
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Our top five language stories this month: best and worst words of the year and the decade; Georgia launches a Russian language TV channel to counter the Kremlin’s message; new ventures and technologies give a boost to Arabic online; just how many cases, genders and moods it takes to make one Amazonian language the world’s most difficult; and the New York Police Department, now enforcing the law in nearly a hundred languages.Download MP3
Baghdad rocked by deadly triple blast
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At least 36 people have died in three large explosions apparently targeting hotels in the heart of Iraq’s capital. More than 70 were injured in the Baghdad blasts, which police said were caused by suicide car bombers. The attacks came as the Iraqi government announced that Saddam Hussein’s former defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid – also known as “Chemical Ali” – had been executed. The BBC’s Jim Muir is in Baghdad. Download MP3 (AP Photo: Khalid Mohammed)
Medical challenges in Haiti
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International aid workers are getting more food to survivors of this month’s earthquake in Haiti. The UN says food aid has reached 500,000 people at least once. But as many as two million people are in need. Reporter Sheri Fink, who’s also a medical doctor, has been traveling around Port-au-Prince. She’s following the work of one of the “disaster medical assistance teams” that the US Department of Health and Human Services sent to Haiti. Download MP3 (Photo: Sheri Fink)
Haitian connects survivors to aid groups via SMS
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The Haiti earthquake killed at least 150,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are without shelter. Few safe buildings survived the quake. So “tent cities” are springing up. Kurt Jean-Charles runs Solutions, a tech company in Port-au-Prince. Since the earthquake, he’s helped to connect aid providers to the tent camps via text messaging. Download MP3 Moscow’s crumbling Soviet architecture
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Russia has seen a dramatic surge in new construction in recent years, especially in cities like Moscow. But Jessica Golloher reports that some Muscovites worry that historically significant buildings are being sacrificed in the name of progress. Download MP3(Photo: Jessica Golloher)
Fela Kuti
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Despite its mainstream theatrical reputation, the credo on Broadway really continues to be anything goes. Broadway’s musical subjects have been as varied as Thomas Jefferson, Jesus Christ, and P.T. Barnum. And so why not a musical about Nigerian afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti? Marco Werman reports. Download MP3
Entire program – January 25, 2010
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Today on The World: A series of car bombs in Baghdad shatter a quiet month there; Also, the challenges facing doctors in Haiti; And, the fight to protect Moscow’s historic buildings.
Health care in Spain
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Health care access isn’t a right in the United States. But it is in many other countries… including Spain. Recently two Spanish towns began to chip away at that. They started by denying benefits to undocumented immigrants. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Vic, Spain.
Burns supper
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The World’s Carol Zall explains the role of haggis in celebrations honoring Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns. The dish made from sheep’s organs has a bad reputation outside of Scotland. But many Scots say “don’t knock it unless you’ve tried it!”
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