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Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world is changing in big ways every day. State of the World from NPR takes you where the news is happening — and explains why it matters. With bureaus spanning the globe, NPR reporters bring you facts and context from the ground so you can cut through the noise of disinformation. NPR's State of the World, a human perspective on global stories in just a few minutes, every weekday. State of the World was previously State of Ukraine. You'll continue to hear Ukraine coverage here, along with other international stories.
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Cuba hasn’t received an oil shipment since December. The shortage has grounded air travel, and disrupted food production, hospitals and schools. Venezuelans stage open demonstrations in the streets that only weeks ago could have meant jail time.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
1Cuba is in economic crisis. Its ally, Venezuela, is no longer sending oil, and the Trump administration is applying pressure. Life for Cubans is hard, but if they express their opinions they can get in a lot of trouble. So they’ve found other ways to tell you what they think, and a single phrase is doing a lot of the work. Our correspondent in Havana tells us what it is.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
As the Winter Olympics get underway in Milan and across the Italian Alps, our correspondent looks back at a bold pledge made by the organizers: that these games would be sustainable. They said they would slash the event’s carbon footprint and protect sensitive mountain ecosystems. Environmental groups say that’s not what is happening.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Ever since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, experts say Russia has stepped up its hybrid war on Western Europe. Attacks on critical infrastructure or using drones to shutdown airports are meant to undermine support for Ukraine. We go to Poland to see one such attack.And in Kyiv, Ukrainians are getting through Russian attacks that have shut down the power grid in the coldest months by holding dance parties on ice.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The United States has been conducting military operations in Syria for more than a decade. Their mission has been to attack ISIS militants and to protect Syrian oil fields. With ISIS weakened and a new government in Syria, the U.S. may pull out the troops it has stationed in Syria. But doing so might hurt some U.S. allies. We hear from NPR reporters who cover the Pentagon and the Middle East about what the move could mean.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
While there has been political turmoil in the U.S. over the latest release of photos and emails in the “Epstein files”, the consequences in the U.K. have been more concrete. There, a prince had already been stripped of his title over his connections to the late accused sex trafficker. Now a member of the House of Lords has been forced to step down. We get the latest from London.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Protests in Iran have been ongoing for over a month and according to one human rights group, over 6000 people have died. As the internet blackout begins to lift, we’re learning more about what has happened. Our correspondent brings us the experiences of three Iranian women.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
While debate rages in the U.S. about the merits and risks of Artificial Intelligence in schools, in China, it’s a state-mandated part of the school curriculum. Authorities there want to create a pool of AI-savvy professionals. But like in the U.S., some parents have mixed emotions about how and when their kids use A.I. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
President Trump approaches Middle East peacemaking as a business deal. In today’s episode we go to Israel and the Palestinian territory of the West Bank to hear about the different ways that those economies are being affected by war, and what that means for the peace process going forward.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
In the past year, President Trump has often threatened or turned to military force. Yet he likes to present himself as a peacemaker, and that includes his new plan for a global Board of Peace. We hear from two NPR correspondents about what the Board of Peace could be.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Despite dozens of lethal U.S. strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, figures show drug flows to the U.S. continue to rise and coastal communities in countries like Colombia are paying the price.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
In Israel, families whose sons have died in the war in Gaza have the option of having sperm samples retrieved for future offspring. Many have agreed to the procedure. That has raised complicated questions of what can and should be done with this genetic material. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Dollars are trickling back into Venezuela, they’re the proceeds from the oil seized and by the U.S. That is helping to stabilize runaway prices in Venezuela—at least on paper. But for ordinary shoppers in Caracas, market prices remain dizzying, and families still struggle to make ends meet.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The booming population along coastal corridor from the cities Lagos to Abidjan has the potential to be a bustling West African economic engine, tied together by a long-promised superhighway that could slash travel time and supercharge trade. But the task of harnessing that potential has barely been met. We travel along a section of the road to understand why.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
We meet a woman in India who estimates she has dozens of biological children. And she says there are many more women like her, because India has a thriving black market for human eggs. Rules constraining the supply of donated eggs, have given rise to this underground supply which have risks for the women giving up their eggs. Our reporter investigates.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
It has been a year since President Donald Trump took office for his second term. And in that year many relationships between the United States and countries around the world have begun to be redefined. In this episode, a conversation between four of NPR’s international correspondents in Great Britain, Russia, China and Mexico about how global politics have changed in the last year.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner, a scandal that gripped the nation. But the murder investigation was flawed and incomplete, and eventually, Ellis’ case was a catalyst for abolishing Britain’s death penalty. 70 years later, her family is seeking a posthumous pardon. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
About two weeks ago, the United States military captured Venezuela’s president, Nicholas Maduro. Since then President Trump has spoken to Venezuela’s interim president, who was a key figure in Maduro’s government, and has welcomed Venezuela’s opposition leader to the White House. We look at what lies in the future for Venezuela and its relationship with the U.S. And the challenges for prosecutors who are seeking to convict Maduro on drug trafficking and other charges in a New York court.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, says the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is beginning. He said “phase two” will establish a new Palestinian administration in Gaza, and begin the full demilitarization and rebuilding of the territory. Our reporter tells us what all of this could mean for Gaza in practice. And we hear reaction to the plan from people living in Gaza City.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Protests are sweeping Iran and the government is cracking down hard, fearing the uprisings pose a threat to the theocratic regime. There is an internet blackout in the country making it hard to get information. We hear a rare first-person account of the protests from a Johns Hopkins professor who visits the Iran frequently and who recently attended a protest there.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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🔴 I will not kill all the Jews. I will leave some of them alive so that future generations will know what kind of animals they are. Adolf Hitler🔗
NPR geeze... simple test: change the genders and would the story fly? Men killing thier girlfriends because they were abusive wouldn't fly.
How come you never interview Israelis?
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Why, dear reporter, are you trying to guilt-trip Poles? They are doing an absolutely fantastic job with refugees - so why are you trying to pull out your race card? If you feel the need to do it, then go to various countries in the Middle East and ask the people their why they are not pulling in their Muslim brethren who claim to be refugees from those countries around them. See how that goes.
White privilege? Disgraceful this guy is pulling out the race card. All non-Ukrainians have a country with a government can help them. It is pathetic that they expect Poland to help them. British people can go home. Indian people can go home. So can Africans. One's colour has nothing to say with it.
A nation that won't even subject itself to the jurisdiction and law of the international criminal court should keep its mouth shut.
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LIES ,WARTIME PROPAGANDA AT IT'S FINEST . WAKE UP WORLD . IF RUSSIA WANTED UKRAINE THEY'D HAVE IT . IF NATO REALLY CARED UKRAINE WOULD BE A MEMBER OR AT VERY LEAST A MEMBER OF THE E.U. ITS AN INFORMATION WAR PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Why would a journalist interview a rapper outright calling for violence on Russians, and then give away exactly where he is taking shelter with other artists? You're endangering your interviewees.
Ukrainians are insurgents? Did you call the French, Polish, Norwegian or Czech fighters in WWII as insurgents? No, they were the Resistance fighting occupiers of their respective countries, just as the Ukraine civil defence and military fighters have been doing now. if anything, it is the Russians who are the insurgents.
The crisis in Ukraine? Call it what it is: the invasion of Ukraine. Period. Stop dignifying Putin's propaganda.
Zelensky is a new hero of mine and I hope and pray he and his courageous citizens can overcome this. I also hope Putin lives long enough to see all of his ambitions unfulfilled and stripped of power. Maybe wishing for any of that is unrealistic. But I still hope.