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Racial Tensions Rise In Rio De Janeiro As Economy Continues To Struggle

5:14pm November 04, 2015

by Catherine Osborn

Amid Brazil's economic slump, race and class tensions are playing out on Rio de Janeiro's beaches. Online images of police and vigilantes targeting poor black youth have captured the public's attention.

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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (right) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with his foreign minister Shimon Peres (center) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1994. Rabin signed an agreement with the Palestinians that launched negotiations b

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20 Years After Rabin's Assassination, Israelis Still Debate His Legacy

4:30pm November 04, 2015

by Emily Harris

Every year Israelis gather to mark the anniversary of the killing of Yitzhak Rabin. But even as they honor Rabin, they disagree on whether he was pursuing the best course for Israel.

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Senior EU Official Asks Arab States To Help Fund Relief For Refugees

4:19pm November 04, 2015

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Kristalina Georgieva, European Commission vice president and chair of the UN High Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing, about why she's asked Arab countries to help the EU fund relief for refugees.

U.S. Diplomats Defend U.S. Policy In Syria Before Congressional Panel

4:19pm November 04, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Two top State Department officials visit Capitol Hill Wednesday to explain how the US is countering Russia's military campaign in Syria. Some analysts say the U.S. is waiting for Russia to fail.

Elizeu Berçacola surveys the scene after he and his fellow rubber tappers set afire one of three illegal logging camps.

Deep In The Amazon, An Unseen Battle Over The Most Valuable Trees

3:07pm November 04, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

For generations, the rubber tappers of the Amazon have gone about their business in a way that preserves the rain forest. Today, they are increasingly in conflict with criminal logging gangs.

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Liberal Party's Justin Trudeau To Be Sworn In As Canada's Prime Minister

2:55pm November 04, 2015

Justin Trudeau will take office Wednesday as prime minister after last month's election win. Conservatives were in power for nearly a decade. Steve Inskeep talks to James Baxter of iPolitics.

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A piece of cacao cut open to reveal its fruit. The seeds, in particular, hidden at the center of the fruit, are a key ingredient in chocolate production.

In The 'Cradle Of Cacao,' Chocolate Brigades Fight For A Bigger Harvest

2:40pm November 04, 2015

by Kirk Siegler

Ecuador's chocolate is famous, and a sweet spot in an otherwise souring economy. The government is paying a small army of pruners to trim back 120,000 acres of Amazonian cacao farms to boost yields.

Jacob LaLoush poses beside bougainvillea flowers outside his kosher restaurant in Sidi Bou Said, outside Tunis, in 2012. He says his is the only kosher restaurant left in all of Tunis.

Amid Security Threats, Tunis' Only Kosher Restaurant Shutters

12:57pm November 04, 2015

by Steve Inskeep

NPR first visited Jacob LaLoush's restaurant, a vestige of Tunisia's ancient and once-thriving Jewish community, in 2012. But the country has become more restive in the years since the Arab Spring.

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For First Time In 6 Decades, Chinese, Taiwanese Leaders To Meet

7:38am November 04, 2015

by Frank Langfitt

The leaders of China and Taiwan will meet in Singapore on Saturday, the first such meeting since the end of China's civil war in 1949. It comes just a couple of months before Taiwan's election.

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Tunisia Fact Check: Clarifying Some Points

7:03am November 04, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

Tunisia is touted as the great success story of the Arab Spring. How democratic does Tunisia really look these days?

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