Economic summits in Canada

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President Barack Obama has called for the G20 to pull together to promote economic growth, saying that world economies are “inextricably linked”. Mr Obama is attending meetings of the G8 and G20 in Canada this weekend. In recent global summits, world leaders have shown a face of unity but that unity is starting to fray. As the World’s Jason Margolis tell us, there is some serious division about what’s best for the world economy. Download MP3 (IMF flickr photo: 2009 G20 summit)

• BBC coverage
• Global Economy podcast

Legacy of the Korean War

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The Korean War officially began 60 years ago this Friday. In that time, life in North and South Korea has grown further and further apart. Now, even families separated by the war have little in common with their relatives across the border. Michael Rhee reports from Seoul. Download MP3

• Audio slideshow: War in Korea
• US vets return to Korea

Salif Keita

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The singer from Mali was born with white skin. His albino condition helped shape his life and his musical career. He talks about that, and performs songs from his new album. Marco Werman’s speaks with him. Download MP3

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Horn of Africa

Today’s Geo Quiz is about a geological event taking place slowly in the Horn of Africa. Since 2005, scientists have been studying a 35-mile long crack in the Earth’s surface in Ethiopia…

Africa at the G8

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Thomas Cargill of the British think tank Chatham House about the significance of today’s meeting between G8 leaders and the heads of seven African nations.

All eyes on Ghana

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Ghana is now the last African team left in the World Cup soccer tournament — the first ever to be held in Africa. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s David Amanor in Ghana.

Israel observes four years of soldier’s capture

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Akiva Eldar, political columnist for Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, about the events in Israel today to mark the fourth anniversary of the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Afghan war strategy

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The World’s Katy Clark looks at what it might take to get the strategy for success in Afghanistan to actually work.

Arrest in Kyrgyzstan

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Authorities in Kyrgyzstan arrested a nephew of the country’s deposed president. The man in custody is accused of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people earlier this month. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from the BBC’s Tom Esslemont in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek.

Geo Quiz and answer

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Today’s Geo Quiz takes us to the Horn of Africa, where an international team of scientists is studying a 35-mile long crack that opened up in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2005. Afar is the answer to our Geo Quiz.

Researchers now say it could eventually split the African continent in two – though it will take about ten million years. Anchor Marco Werman gets details from Cynthia Ebinger, a geophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York.

India’s hair entrepreneur

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Correspondent Elliot Hannon visits a hairstylist in New Delhi who hopes to turn the every day haircut in India into big business.

Music Heard on Air for June 25, 2010

Tunes Spun On The World Between Our Reports For June 25, 2010. Artists featured are Bela Fleck, Soul Brothers, Ayub Ogada, Moriba Koita, Habib Koite & Bamada, Jesse Cook.

Entire program – June 24, 2010

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Today on The World: Reaction from Afghanistan to the change in US military leadership there; Also, Russia’s leader looks to the US for help in creating a Russian silicon valley; Plus, how World Cup soccer helps Haitians temporarily put their troubles aside.

Kandahar trauma unit

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that casualties will increase as the US led NATO force in Afghanistan conducts a major offensive in the southern province of Kandahar this summer and fall. June has been the deadliest month for international forces since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. Nowhere is the violence more apparent than at the trauma ward at Kandahar Airfield.  Ben Gilbert reports. Download MP3 (flickr image of Spin Boldak medevac: lafrancevi)

• The surge in Afghanistan
• BBC coverage

A memoir of terror

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Terrorism expert Jessica Stern was much in demand after 9/11. Her book “Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill” was much acclaimed. Stern has now written a very different book called “Denial: A Memoir of Terror.” It’s a deeply personal account of the traumas of her childhood — and the ways in which they’ve influenced her life and work. Jeb Sharp talks with Jessica Stern about her traumatic experience. Download MP3

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