Venezuela’s State-Owned Oil Company Is Hit With U.S. Sanctions
The U.S. Treasury has announced new sanctions on Venezuela, targeting that country’s oil sales — as part of a larger effort to support the opposition and push for the ouster of Nicolas Maduro.
Afghan Ambassador To The U.S. Is Optimistic U.S. Won’t Abandon Afghans
Rachel Martin talks to Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s new ambassador to the U.S. and the first woman to serve in that role, about ongoing negotiations with the Taliban. NPR’s Tom Bowman weighs in.
U.S. Imposes Sanctions On Venezuelan State Oil Monopoly
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says payments from U.S. refiners will go into an escrow account until Juan Guaidó or another leader replaces President Nicolás Maduro.
U.S. Charges Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei, Asks Canada For CFO Extradition
The administration appears to have decided to make an example of the company’s CFO. She is the daughter of Huawei’s founder and the company is seen as an arm of China’s power around the world.
Brexit puts EU nurses – and British health care – on rocky road
Eight years after moving to England to work as a nurse in a public hospital, Fabio Vasconcelos is weighing his future. As a Portuguese national, his “investment” was upended by the June 2015 referendum that mandated a British exit from the European Un…
How do you define ‘wall’? Keeping Washington open may hinge on the answer
Or rather, it might depend on whether Democratic and Republican congressional negotiators can agree on border security measures that meet their mutually exclusive “wall” definition needs. Democrats are firmly opposed to a physical wall – “a big, beaut…
Who Is Abu Sayyaf? The Group Behind The Deadly Church Bombing In The Philippines
A militant group aligned with ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a church in the southern Philippines that killed at least 20 people last weekend. Some experts believe the group will use the bombing as a tool for recruiting foreign figh…
Episode 1905
Our broadcast show for January 25, 2019
Episode 1905
Our broadcast show for January 25, 2019.
U.S. Looks For Way Out Of Afghanistan During Talks With Taliban And Afghan Government
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Chris Kolenda about possible roadblocks as the U.S., the Taliban, and the Afghan government work toward reaching an agreement on a U.S. exit strategy from Afghanistan.
How British Prime Minister Theresa May Became The Person Trying To Wrangle Brexit
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with writer Sam Knight of The New Yorker about British Prime Minister Theresa May, and how she’s handling the job of leading the U.K. through Brexit.
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