Seun Kuti, son of Nigeria’s legendary musician Fela Kuti has emerged as one of the protest leaders in Nigeria.
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Nigel Fisher, Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, describes the ongoing reconstruction effort in quake-ravaged Haiti.
Marco Werman gets an update from Syria from the CBC’s Margaret Evans in Damascus. Evans has been reporting on nighttime protests in some Damascus neighborhoods.
Legendary Soviet spy Gevork Vartanian, who helped foil a Nazi plot to kill Allied leaders in Tehran during World War II, has died in Moscow aged 87.
The government of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed.
The small island nation is marking the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated so many lives there.
Haitians are still battling to rebuild their lives and their homes two years after the devastating earthquake. Historian Laurent Dubois explains how Haiti’s turbulent past continues to resonate in its politics today.
For the Geo Quiz we are looking for one of the cities in the Arab world where Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands paid a visit and got into trouble because of what she was wearing.
Cigala recently won a Latin Grammy for his recording “Cigala and Tango.”
Latest edition of The World.
A nuclear scientist is killed after a suspected bomb exploded in a car in northern Tehran, the latest in a string of such nuclear-linked attacks.
Iranian officials are blaming the killing of a Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran on Israel and the US. Washington has denied any involvement, but Israel isn’t saying one way or the other.
‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009.
A nuclear scientist is killed after a suspected bomb exploded in a car in northern Tehran, the latest in a string of such nuclear-linked attacks.
