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Remembering Tunisia’s ‘martyr’

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A fruit vendor in Tunisia who set himself on fire in December started a revolution. Now Mohamed Bouazizi is remembered as a hero, but as Megan Williams reports, his relatives say they’re being shunned. Download MP3
Video: Family mourns Tunisian ‘martyr’

Is Algeria next?

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Marco Werman talks with Karima Bennoune, a professor of international law and human rights at Rutgers University, about Algeria and whether it is likely to be a part of the “Arab Spring”. Download MP3
Algeria’s long haul towards liberty

Soccer and revolution

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Anchor Marco Werman explores the connections between soccer and the political upheavals in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world with journalist and blogger James Dorsey. Download MP3
The World Blogs: Haiti beats Harvard

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s legacy

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Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to orbit the earth. The World’s Clark Boyd looks back on Gagarin’s legacy, in Russia and beyond. Download MP3
Video: The first space-Earth duet

The music of Libya’s uprising

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Ben Gilbert reports on a rock song that’s risen to the top as one of the musical themes to Libya’s revolution. Download MP3

Video: Libya song:we will not surrender

Still uncertainty in Ivory Coast

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With Laurent Gbagbo under arrest, the political standoff in Ivory Coast is over, but the stability of the West African nation is still uncertain. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with William Ahouma, a 28-year-old web designer in Abidjan, the main city of Ivory Coast, who was a Gbagbo supporter and is now worried about the future. Download MP3

European ice road

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For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re looking for an unusual road. It’s not as famous as Germany’s Autobahn or as well paved as Route 66. This road very near the Baltic Sea is only open several months of the year. Most of the traffic on this road comes from a northern European country, we want you to name… Download MP3

The global conflicts of 1861

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Americans marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War today, but according to Brian DeLay, a teacher of history at the University of California, Berkeley, the rest of the world was hardly at peace, either. Download MP3

Mehmet Ertegun and jazz

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Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges, and Adele Girard, Turkish Embassy, Washington, D.C., 1930s. (Photo: William Gottlieb)

Bruce Wallace reports on jazz concerts being hosted by the Turkish Embassy in DC. The performaces commemorate a series of ground-breaking concerts organized in the 1930′s by the sons of Ambassador Mehmet Ertegun. Ahmet Ertegun went on to form Atlantic Records. Download MP3

PRI’s The World(04/12/2011: Laura Lynch, Ben Gilbert)

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High-ranking Libyan defector Moussa Koussa leaves Britain and sparks new controversy there;Also, the family of the Tunisian man whose death sparked the revolution there say they’re being shunned now;Plus the legacy of Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who 50 years ago became the first human to orbit the Earth. Download MP3

Music Heard on Air for April 12, 2011

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Tunes spun on The World between our reports for April 12, 2011. Artists featured are: AfroCubism, Zelal, Cem Yildiz, Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck, Oumou Sangare, Habib Koite, Bamada, Senor Mandril, Barrio Populaire, Darjee.

Haiti beats Harvard

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At the end of what would have been a game tied at zero-zero, a series of penalty kicks gave Haiti’s national men’s soccer team a 4 to 1 victory over Harvard University. At the final point, the already joyous, heavily Haitian crowd erupted into hysterical cheers and chants of, “Haiti! Haiti!” [...]

Robots in post-quake Japan

By Clark Boyd ⋅ April 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

In the course of seven years of tech reporting for The World, it’s fair to say that I’ve done my fair share of stories about robots, both for the radio show, and for my weekly podcast. It is also fair to say that many of those stories have come from Japan, a recognized world leader when it comes to robot research, design, and use. And that’s why it struck a chord with me when Tech Podcast listener James Middleton asked, essentially, “where are the robots?” [...]

Noisy Oceans Could Traumatize Squids

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Giant squids are fascinating, deep sea creatures that are so elusive that a live one was photographed for the first time just last year. So it was very unusual for the people of Asturia, in northern Spain to encounter five giant squids on their beaches in 2001. The squids were dead, and the carcasses washed ashore over a two-month period. Four more carcasses were found in 2003 [...]

Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo detained

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Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo has been detained in Abidjan and delivered to the headquarters of his elected successor Alassane Ouattara. He reportedly surrendered to Ouattara’s forces after French tanks advanced on his residence. Anchor Marco Werman talks with the BBC’s Mark Doyle in Abidjan. Download MP3
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