After Second Rescue, 4 Boys And Their Coach Remain Trapped In Cave In Thailand
Four more boys were rescued after being trapped in a cave in Thailand — bringing the total out of the cave to eight. Four more boys and their soccer coach remain in the cave.
Author James Crabtree On India’s Growing Income Divide And ‘The Billionaire Raj’
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with author James Crabtree about his book The Billionaire Raj. The book talks about the growth of super-wealthy Indians and why there are so many.
Ethiopia And Eritrea Declare End Of War
Ethiopia and Eritrea formally restored relations today, 20 years after a border war killed an estimated 80,000 people. The restoration of ties ends a cold war that separated neighbors and families.
Greece Is One Of Few NATO Members To Have Met Defense Spending Goal
Greece is one of the few alliance members that exceeds NATO’s goal for defense spending, despite its teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for years. The country’s rivalry with Turkey is a major factor.
Turmoil Over Brexit Continues As 2 British Cabinet Ministers Resign
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson resigned Monday, potentially throwing Prime Minister Theresa May’s government into disarray. NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, about the development.
US-Europe ties and the audacity of July 1948
In July 1948, the first of hundreds of shiploads of American goods were docking in Europe under the Marshall Plan. The most audacious such program in history, it would, over four years, send the present-day equivalent of more than $130 billion in US a…
With ‘zero tolerance,’ new strain on already struggling immigration courts
In a federal courtroom in the border city of McAllen, Texas, two weeks ago, 74 migrants waited as Judge J. Scott Thacker confirmed their names and countries of origin. Tired and nervous, the migrants were wearing the clothes they had been arrested in, …
Thai cave rescue: a metaphor on climate adaptation
If ever there were a global example of resilience in the face of a weather disaster, it would be the image of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for days by flood waters in a Thai cave. The results of these pledges are mixed.
Spain’s Socialist Leader Sets A New Course On Migrants, Gender And Catalonia
After the conservative administration was forced out, Pedro Sánchez formed a cabinet with a record number of women, opened ports to refugees and even tweeted in Catalan to make amends with its leader.
Cleveland uses literature to empower youth, overcome social divides
At a long conference table on the east side of Cleveland, Daniel Gray-Kontar listens closely as one of his students, a high school senior, starts to read her latest poem. Together they go over the rhythm and flow of her performance, and Gray-Kontar, w…
What noodles can teach us about Nigeria’s reluctance on free trade
It also means finding your own sources of electricity to supplement erratic government-provided supplies. It means scoping out the cheapest providers of imported wheat for flour, since Nigeria doesn’t grow its own. “We have a lot of challenges,” says …
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