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PRI's The World Sep 26, 2012
by The World
The latest from the UN General Assembly. Iran bars women university students from 76 fields of study. And South Koreans, once good savers, are going into debt.
Episodes
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Haiti National Park Conflict Takes Deadly Turn
Haiti's president has promised to step-up protection of a key national park, but that would mean kicking out people who have been living there for years.
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Smuggling Pizza Ingredients Into Canada
For our Geo Quiz we're trying to track down some pizza rustlers, some cheese pizza rustlers. Police in Southern Ontario are investigating an unusual criminal case that involves some local pizzerias.
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Growing Debt Worries for South Korea
People in South Korea are taking out loans for education and housing, racking up personal debt, and prompting worries that Korea could have its own debt crisis.
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Remembering Andy Williams: An American Crooner Who Made the Brits Swoon
Singer Andy Williams has died at the age of 84. He had a number of hits in the US - like his signature rendition of "Moon River."
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Two Vacancies: J.K. Rowling's Novel and a New Archbishop
'The Casual Vacancy' is not like Harry Potter. Rowling's latest novel is decidedly for adults. The World's Alex Gallafent talks with anchor Marco Werman about the type of local English government that forms the backdrop to the novel, and about related developments in the Church of England.
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Cabbies' Take on NYC Traffic During UN General Assembly
Cab drivers in New York City seem to agree that the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly is a nightmare for traffic. But New York's multinational cabbies have lots of different opinions on what the General Assembly should be talking about.
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Libyan Who Helped Capture Gaddafi is Killed
One of the men who captured Colonel Gaddafi was buried today. Omran Ben Shabaan was caught on camera last year grabbing the fallen dictator as he emerged from a drain hole. Shabaan also died violently, from injuries he received at the hands of Gaddafi loyalists.
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Hubble Telescope Captures Extreme Deep View of Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date - an extreme deep shot that captures galaxies as they were just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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PRI's The World Latest Edition Sep 26, 2012
The latest from the UN General Assembly. Iran bars women university students from 76 fields of study. And South Koreans, once good savers, are going into debt.
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'Avila': Latest Jazz Sound from Ska Innovator Ernest Ranglin
Anchor Marco Wermna talks about the latest jazzy sound coming from the Jamaican ska innovator Ernest Ranglin.
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Iran Universities Restrict Options For Women
A recent decision by several Iranian universities is drawing criticism from international human rights groups. The universities are barring women from 76 fields of undergraduate studies, including math and chemistry. Haleh Esfandiari is from Iran and heads the Middle-East program of the Woodrow...
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The latest from the UN General Assembly. Iran bars women university students from 76 fields of study. And South Koreans, once good savers, are going into debt.
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