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Archive for May, 2011

Why Lebanon Worries about Unrest in Syria

By Ben Gilbert ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters on Friday, killing at least eight people, reports say. The continuing demonstrations against the regime in Syria are affecting life in next door Lebanon. As Ben Gilbert reports, officials there worried that pro and anti-Syrian forces will clash and create instability in their country. Download MP3

Syrian Refugees Tell Tales of Brutality

Palestinian Visions for Statehood

By Matthew Bell ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments ⋅ Transcript

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Palestinians are expected to ask for recognition of statehood from the United Nations in September. But as The World’s Matthew Bell reports, activists are divided on whether that would actually lead to the statehood Palestinians so desperately desire. Download MP3

Nepal Stagnates Amid Government Deadlock

By Mary Kay Magistad ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Nepal has great potential, but its economy remains stagnant because rivals in the government cannot agree on moving forward and its poor suffer the consequences. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports.

Spain’s Nino Bravo Museum

By Gerry Hadden ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments ⋅ Transcript

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Nino Bravo (1944-1973) was an international success in Spain and especially in Latin America, where he sang songs that won him millions of fans and then bans. He died at 28 in a car crash outside of Madrid. In all he produced three albums. In Ayelo, Spain there’s a museum about him. Gerry Hadden has more. Download MP3

Video: Visiting Ayelo and remembering Nino Bravo

FIFA President Under Bribery Investigation

By The World ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl about the allegations of corruption swirling around FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. FIFA has placed its own president Sepp Blatter under investigation in a probe over bribery allegations.Download MP3

Blogger Arrested in Thailand for Allegedly Insulting King

By The World ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Irwin Loy in Bangkok about a Thai-American blogger who has been arrested on charges of insulting Thailand’s king. Download MP3

Tight and Loose Cultures

By The World ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Some countries are strict, others are a little more laid back – You could say “tight” or “loose.” An international team of scientists has come up with a psychological and cultural study of 33 countries. The study compares how those nations enforce social rules and customs. The results are in a study published in the journal “Science.” So for our Geo Quiz, we want you to name the two countries that are on the opposite ends of the tight/loose spectrum. Download MP3

PRI’s The World(05/27/2011: Fukushima, Palestine)

By The World ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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American reporter James Foley on his six weeks in Libyan detention. Also, more communities in Japan are evacuated as the radiation exposure grows. And a corruption scandal in soccer’s governing body FIFA – its own president is under investigation. Download MP3

Music Heard on Air for May 27, 2011

By Ann Lopez ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Tunes spun on The World between our reports for May 27, 2011. Artists featured are: Kaya Project, Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Susana Baca, Markku Lepisto, Ensemble FizFuz.

Bosnia War Crimes Suspect Ratko Mladic Arrested

By The World ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ One comment ⋅ Transcript

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Fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic (center) has been arrested in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Mladic faces charges over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. In Serbia, the reaction to the arrest was mixed as Nate Tabak reports. Download MP3

BBC Live Updates: Ratko Mladic captured
Jeb Sharp’s award-winning series ‘How Wars End’ part V: Bosnia

Apocalypse When?

By Marco Werman ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Newton is Japan’s equivalent of Scientific American. The June issue (now almost off the newstands here) helps anxious Japanese better understand the historical patterns of seismic activity across their country, where those quakes have occured, and tries to establish a non-hysterical sense of when other large magnitude quakes like the one on March 11 might happen [...]

Face to Face with Ratko Mladic

By The World ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with journalist Laura Silber, who met the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Download MP3

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little

Spanish Claim on Coca Cola

By Gerry Hadden ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments ⋅ Transcript

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A bottle of Cola Coca liquor from the early 20th Century. (Photo: Gerry Hadden)

Credit for Coke’s secret recipe goes to an American pharmacist named John Pemberton. But if you ask around a certain tiny village in southeast Spain, people tell a different story. They say they invented Coke first. The World’s Gerry Hadden went to Ayelo to learn more. Download MP3

Slideshow: Spanish Claim on Coca Cola

Poland Wants US Travel Visa-Free

By The World ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

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President Barack Obama will be in Poland Friday, but people there may not be that happy to see him. Poles are frustrated that the United States still requires them to get a visa to visit the country, something that residents of almost no other European country have to do. Dave McGuire reports from Warsaw. Download MP3

Dominican Dictatorship Remembered

By The World ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments ⋅ Transcript

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For the Geo Quiz this time: we’re looking for a city in the Caribbean once nicknamed “Ciudad Trujillo” or Trujillo’s City. The name dates back to the 1930s when this city in the Dominican Republic was ruled by the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Dominicans haven’t forgotten Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule, now there’s a museum dedicated to his victims. It’s located in the heart of the Dominican capital we want you to name. Download MP3