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PRI's The World Mar 23, 2012
by The World
Calls for international intervention in Syria, as the government continues to gain on the rebels there. Also, Japan is till unsure about its energy future, a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Plus, we remember award-winning photo-journalist Paula Lerner, who died earlier this month.
Episodes
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The 'Mainhattan' of Germany
For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for the financial hub of Germany. In fact the city’s business district is referred to as “Mainhattan.”
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Remembering Photojournalist Paula Lerner
Paula Lerner was a talented photographer whose photos of Afghan women earned her an Emmy award. Lerner died of cancer earlier this month.
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A Year After Fukushima, Japan's Clean Energy Promise is Still Waiting to be Fulfilled
One year after the Fukushima disaster nearly all of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants are out of service and the country is facing a major power crunch. The government has promised a major shift toward cleaner renewable energy to help fill the gap. But as Sam Eaton reports, the country’s clean…
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Nuclear Summit Overshadowed by North Korean Tensions
Lisa Mullins talks with Asia correspondent Mary Kay Magistad about next week’s Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. The Summit is being overshadowed by tensions with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions.
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Conversion: A Mexican Village's Evangelical Shift
In some parts of Mexico, Catholics are losing parishioners to evangelical churches. It’s a spiritual flip moving throughout the country, and there’s no better place to see the religious context then Zongozotla. Reporter Monica Campbell visits the town where evangelicals are gaining ground.
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'Mujtahidd' Tweets Shake Things Up In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabians are buzzing about an anonymous Twitter user who claims to be exposing the corruption in the Saudi government.
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Fostering the Arts in Post-Gaddafi Libya
Poet Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya but has been in the United States since he was 15. Through the years, he maintained close contact with his homeland, especially the artists who opposed Libya’s longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Mattawa just returned from a visit to Tripoli and…
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Is Syria's Idlib Like Srebrenica?
Many Syrian fighters and refugees have fled over the border into Turkey. Some see similarities between what is happening now in Idlib and the massacres in the mid-90s at Srebrenica, in Bosnia.
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PRI's The World Latest Edition Mar 23, 2012
Calls for international intervention in Syria, as the government continues to gain on the rebels there. Also, Japan is till unsure about its energy future, a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Plus, we remember award-winning photo-journalist Paula Lerner, who died earlier this month.
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Marco Werman Speaks With Youssou N'Dour's Father About The Senegal Election
The World’s Marco Werman was in Senegal last month covering the country’s first round of elections. While there, he had the chance to speak to the father of Senegalese musician and one-time candidate Youssou N’dour.
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Calls for international intervention in Syria, as the government continues to gain on the rebels there. Also, Japan is till unsure about its energy future, a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Plus, we remember award-winning photo-journalist Paula Lerner, who died earlier this month.
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