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Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei's New Musical Protest
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei's unusual and outspoken art has surfaced anew on the Internet. His new music video, Dumbass, is a strongly worded song protesting China's abuse of state power.
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Peru's President Orders Environmental Clean Up in Amazon Oil Region
Peru’s president Ollanta Humala was elected in 2011 partly on a pledge to protect the environment, and his administration recently made its most dramatic move yet. It declared a state of emergency in the Pastaza RIver basin, and gave an Argentinian oil company operating there three months to…
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Catholic Church in Philippines Holds Mass in Malls
In the Philippines, many are abandoning the Catholic Church and going shopping. So the Church is going where the shoppers are. It's holding Mass at the malls. John Otis reports from Manila.
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Filipino Workers to Get More Rights in Saudi Arabia
The governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines have signed an agreement giving Filipino workers more rights.
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New Americans On What Citizenship Means to Them
A US Senate committee approved a large immigration bill on Tuesday. It’ll hit the Senate floor soon and then the House of Representatives. If it passes, the bill will offer 11 million immigrants living in the US illegally a path to citizenship.
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Afghanistan: Inside The Head Of The Giant Buddha
Afghan author Qais Akbar Omar has written a memoir about his tumultuous youth in Afghanistan called A Fort of Nine Towers.
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The Deadly Cycling Streets of São Paulo
São Paulo is a tough place to get around. The city of 11 million - South America's largest - has notorious traffic. Rush hour traffic jams can clog up more than 180 miles of road on a bad day. There is one quick way to navigate the streets of Sao Paulo though: Ride a bike. Problem is, you put…
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US Citizen's Death by Drone
Reporter Jeremy Scahill talks about the American drone program and about the 2011 death of a 16-year old U.S. citizen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the result of a drone attack in Yemen.
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PRI's The World Latest Edition May 22, 2013
US drone strike policies and the case of a 16-year-old American killed by a strike in Yemen. Also, using pedal power to manage mega traffic in Brazil's largest city. And a music video from Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei.
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US drone strike policies and the case of a 16-year-old American killed by a strike in Yemen. Also, using pedal power to manage mega traffic in Brazil's largest city. And a music video from Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei.
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