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Gaza's Future Looks Bleaker Even Than Its Past

Ihab Abu Nada's family lives down a series of dark narrow alleyways in Gaza City. The house has two bedrooms for the seven people living there — the kitchen and the bathroom are in the same space, and...

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A War Correspondent Takes On Her Toughest Assignment

When I discovered I was pregnant, I realized it was time for a change of pace. I'd been covering conflicts around the world for 12 years. The plan was to retreat to balmy Miami where my family is, have...

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A War Survivor, An Iraqi Makes A New Home In North Carolina

Ten years after the Iraq War began, NPR is catching up with people we encountered during the conflict. Back in 2008, NPR's armored car was targeted with a so-called sticky bomb in Baghdad. Ali Hamdani,...

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In The Wake Of Brazil's Boom, Prices To Match

In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, a Starbucks coffee shop looks as it would in the United States. It has the same jazzy music; the same items on the menu.There is one thing that is different,...

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Website Connects Street Artists, Business For A More Colorful Sao Paulo

It's lunchtime in the heart of Sao Paulo's financial district. Surrounded by tall buildings of cool glass and steel, men and women in suits and business attire walk back and forth busily in Brazil's...

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Stadium Issues Dog Brazil Ahead Of 2014 World Cup

Soccer isn't just a sport in Brazil, it's a religion, and the main temple is the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.The venue is not only the biggest stadium in Brazil but the biggest in South America. Over...

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As Youth Crime Spikes, Brazil Struggles For Answers

In Rio de Janeiro, tourists are drawn to Copacabana for its wide beach and foliage-covered cliffs. But a month ago, not far from the tourist hub, an American woman and her French male companion were...

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C-Sections Deliver Cachet For Wealthy Brazilian Women

The office is immaculate, as you would expect in an upscale neighborhood in Sao Paulo — all sterile, white, modish plastic furniture and green plants. Behind the reception desk are pictures that would...

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Brazil Looks To Build A 10,000-Mile Virtual Fence

Brazil's borders are so vast, and the terrain so inhospitable, that attempting to secure them has seemed a virtually impossible task.But Brazil's rapidly expanding economy has made the country a magnet...

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New Laws Enshrine Domestic Worker Rights In Brazil

The phone is ringing off the hook at the crowded waiting room at the Domestic Workers Union in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.In the past decade, millions of Brazilians have joined the middle class.

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Rio Goes High-Tech With An Eye Toward Olympics, World Cup

We are standing in front of a huge bank of screens, in the middle of which is a glowing map that changes focus depending on what the dozens of controllers are looking at.The room looks like something...

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Once Unsafe, Rio's Shanty Towns See Rapid Gentrification

A new gastronomic guide to Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns — for a cool $35 — has just been published. A new boutique hotel perched on top of one of Rio's previously most dangerous favelas is about to...

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Criminals Fleeing Rio Crackdown Set Up Shop In The Suburbs

The provincial town of Mage seems a world away from the violence and drug dealing that plague Brazil's larger cities. On a recent afternoon, the central square is a picture of calm. Children play...

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Angry At Brazil's Government, Protesters Take To The Streets

Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Just because a government is democratically elected does not mean it is immune to protest. We've been watching demonstrations and the government response in Turkey. And...

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Mass Anti-Government Protests Swell In Brazil

What started as small protests about higher bus fares has swelled into nationwide, massive anti-government demonstrations in Brazil.Last night, reports O Globo, more than 100,000 protesters filled the...

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With Inspiration From Turkey, Brazil Discovers Mass Protests

They are young, they are angry and they have drawn inspiration from protest movements a world away in places like Turkey and the Middle East.Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets across...

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Protests In Brazil Gain Steam, Violence Increases

Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Until recently, our correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was posted in the Middle East. She was an eyewitness to the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere....

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Protests Allow Brazilians To Feel Part Of Global Movement

Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Technology really does seem to make the world smaller, and this morning, we'll hear this morning how that applies to protest movements. Turkey saw a fresh wave of...

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Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land Citing Promises, Using Force

It was once the cattle farm of a former congressman, but now his stately house in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a burned-out shell. Thatch huts are being built in the shade of...

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Amid Construction Boom, Migrants Flow Into Brazil

Brazil is in the midst of a building boom as it constructs stadiums across the country in preparation for the World Cup it will host next year. In Sao Paulo, hundreds of workers are building a massive...

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