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PRI's The World Oct 11, 2012
by The World
The candidates for Vice President square off tonight at their one and only debate. We take a look at what they have said about foreign policy. Also, emergency medical care in Haiti has been patchy. Now the medical community is working to change it. And China gets its first Nobel Laureate for Literature.
Episodes
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Saudi Blogger Ahmed Al Omran Discusses Human Rights Case
Marco Werman speaks with 27-year old Saudi journalist and blogger Ahmed Al Omran, about the ongoing trial of two human rights activist and how the mainstream Saudi media is ignoring the story.
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The Hidden History of Mexican Migrants
We may be wrapping up the largest immigration wave in modern times: 12 million Mexican migrants have come to the US over the past four decades, many illegally and out of sight. One professor is trying to collect and preserve the artifacts of this hidden migration before the clues completely...
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Robert F. Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Era Papers Released
Nearly 3,000 pages of material from the papers of Robert F. Kennedy are being released by the National Archives and the Kennedy Library.
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Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to 57-year-old Chinese novelist Mo Yan. The Swedish Academy praised Mo's "hallucinatory realism," saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
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Israel Calling Attention to Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
Israel is now waging a campaign to add another issue to the agenda for Middle East peace - the plight of Jews from Arab countries forced to leave their homes. Palestinians say this is a distraction from the real issue - Palestinians forced to leave their homes during the 1948 Middle East war.
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The VP Debate and Foreign Affairs
Foreign policy issues are expected to come up at Thursday's vice-presidential debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. Anchor Marco Werman explores the foreign policy credentials of both candidates with James Traub, a fellow at the Center on International Cooperation, and Ted Bromund, a senior...
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PRI's The World Latest Edition Oct 11, 2012
The candidates for Vice President square off tonight at their one and only debate. We take a look at what they have said about foreign policy. Also, emergency medical care in Haiti has been patchy. Now the medical community is working to change it. And China gets its first Nobel Laureate for...
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Iranian Singer Sussan Deyhim Contributes to the Argo Soundtrack
Iranian singer Sussan Deyhim contributed music to the new film "Argo." The film is set in Tehran during the US Embassy hostage crisis that followed the Iranian revolution. This is a time period that resonates with Sussan Deyhim even though she had left Iran a couple years prior.
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Haiti Medical Volunteers: Learning from Mistakes
Doctors who worked in Haiti after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake are asking a difficult question: Did some medical volunteers harm patients? Experts in disaster medicine point to unnecessary amputations, inadequate pain control, and other problems caused by doctors and nurses inexperienced at...
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The candidates for Vice President square off tonight at their one and only debate. We take a look at what they have said about foreign policy. Also, emergency medical care in Haiti has been patchy. Now the medical community is working to change it. And China gets its first Nobel Laureate for Literature.
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