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Tweeting for Sweden: Trucks, Coffee, Breasts and Cats
Hanna Fange has been sending out her personal tweets on Sweden’s official twitter account as part of a program to let a different Swedish citizen take over the account each week.
Swedish Musician “Loney Dear”
Loney Dear’s latest album “Hall Music” is textured by church organs, vibraphones and trombones.
Get Lost, Silvio. I’ve Got A New Guy
Get lost, Silvio. I’ve got a new guy. Cartoon by Olle Johansson of Sweden.
Bollywood Bloodbath and other Global Fright Music
The World’s Marco Werman begins with a collection titled “Bollywood Bloodbath,” then explores some other unexpected sources of ghoulish music to play on your porch for the trick or treaters.
Why Swedes want free subway rides?
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Anchor Marco Werman talks to an activist in Stockholm, Sweden, who’s part of a growing movement out to pressure the government to make subway rides free. The goal behind it? To get people out of their air-polluting, traffic-making cars. Download MP3
Global Political Cartoons: March 12 – 18, 2011
The Land of the Rising Sun has become for some The Land of Rising Radiation Levels. The aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami has cartoonists morphing the red disc in Japan’s flag into everything from a radiation hazard symbol to a skull.
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Global Political Cartoons: March 5 – 11, 2011
The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan spawn multiple images of a famous Japanese woodblock print. The tangled role of oil in the world’s response to Libya, and the space shuttle Discovery retires into the arms of another beached phenom.
Global Political Cartoons: February 26 – March 4, 2011
Lobster safari in Sweden
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For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re searching for an ocean strait between the North Sea and Kattegat Bay. Denmark lies to the south – Norway and Sweden, respectively, to the north and east. Download MP3Egypt through the eyes of other cartoonists
Cartoonists outside the Middle East are commenting on events in Egypt just as much as those in the region. A few more references to the imagined back and forth between Hosni Mubarak and Barack Obama but just as many pyramids, dominoes and pharaohs. Take a look.
Larsson’s last city
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We get literary for today’s Geo Quiz. We are looking for the city the 50-year-old Steig Larsson was living and working in, in 2004 when he died of a heart attack. Download MP3
Assange on leaking private information
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We hear an excerpt from a BBC interview in which WikiLeaks head Julian Assange complains that information about his legal case in Sweden has been leaked to newspapers. Download MP3
Assange fears extradition to US
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he is worried about an attempt to extradite him to the United States. Assange is free on bail in the UK while facing extradition proceedings to Sweden over sex allegations. Assange denies the Swedish allegations, made by two women, and says the case is politically motivated. Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3Coverage of the Wikileaks revelations on The World
The Wikileaks revelations
Starting in November 2010, the website WikiLeaks and five major newspapers published confidential documents of detailed correspondences between the U.S. State Department and its diplomatic missions around the world. The contents of the cables describe international affairs from 274 embassies dated from 1966–2010, containing diplomatic analysis of world leaders, an assessment of host countries, and a discussion about international and domestic issues. >>> coverage on The World:
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