Month: January 2024

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Focus on Africa - Comoros’ president bids for a fourth term in forthcoming election

Voters in Comoros head to the polls on Sunday to elect the next president. The incumbent Azali Assoumani is seeking a fourth term, but who are his main challengers?

The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) kicks off in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, this Sunday, but next time hosts Kenya did not qualify for this year’s tournament. Former Kenyan international Musa Otieno says the game’s infrastructure in the country needs to improve.

And Knives down, Gloves up, we hear from a young man with Ivorian and Guinean heritage, on the connection between good mental health and sport and why he established a boxing club after a lifechanging act of violence.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/11/2024 | World News Roundup

A showdown between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Chris Christie bows out of the Republican presidential race. A deadly avalanche roars through a California ski resort. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Thursday, January 11, 2024:

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Bad Faith - Episode 337 – “Academic Freedom is Dead” (w/ Norman Finkelstein)

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Norman Finkelstein is back to weigh in on billionaire Bill Ackman's attack on academic freedom and how it backfired colossally with accusations that his own wife committed worse plagiarism than Claudine Gay, whom he fought to oust from Harvard because she didn't crack down hard enough on anti-Zionist speech. The conversation broadens out into a two hour discourse on the history of academic freedom, whether "from the river to the sea" is a productive slogan, and more.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Intelligence: Growing, no pains

America seems to be in a best-of-worlds scenario: growth is outpacing expectations even as inflation keeps falling—how will the party end? This week’s loss of the Peregrine One Moon lander was disappointing, but our correspondent sees the good news from the launch (9:19). And how Japan’s geishas are modernising their trade in order to keep it alive (17:35).


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Bay Curious - Two Water Temples … Why?!

The Bay Area's two water temples can be an unexpected finding if you stumble upon one. Stately, round, and featuring tall stone columns, the open-air structures look like they've been plucked right from ancient Rome. Bay Curious listener Will Hoffknecht wanted to know why these monuments exist and look the way they do. KQED’s Katherine Monahan traces their story back to the European colonization of San Francisco, and finds discontent about what they symbolize around our state.

*This episode has been updated to include that the SFPUC is constructing an interpretive center at the Sunol Water temple and is working with the Muwekma Ohlone Nation to include an exhibit about their history.

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This story was reported by Katherine Monahan. This episode of Bay Curious was made by Olivia Allen-Price, Bianca Taylor, Katrina Schwartz and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad and Holly Kernan.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.11.24

Alabama

  • Nick Saban announces his retirement from coaching AL football after 17 years
  • The state opts out of the EBT program for students due to federal cuts in funding
  • 30 percent of workers at Mercedes plant in Vance sign onto unionization
  • Family sues Washington county sheriff for death of Mobile police officer in 2022
  • Wes Kitchens is declared winner in state senate district 9 special election
  • Bryan Brinyark wins House district seat 16 over Democrat John Underwood
  • Pre-filed bill allows non public schools to enter contract with SROs

National

  • DefSec still in hospital on Tuesday while meeting with Joe Biden over Red Sea
  • Hunter Biden shows for committee meeting only to flee when questioned
  • Chris Christie drops out of GOP presidential primary, bashes Nikki Haley on mic
  • TX man seeking to remove Trump's name from ballot charged with 33 felonies
  • WI judge determines that absentee voting VANS are illegal to use
  • Big report out of MI over police investigating voter registration scam in 2020
  • 5th circuit court upholds efficiency standards on dishwashers & laundry machines
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Unexpected Elements - Super corals and science diplomacy

Could geopolitical tensions around the Red Sea affect research into the region’s heat-resistant super corals? Also on the program, what an ocean that used to lie under the Himalayas can tell us about evolution, the fruit chat continues with the latest chapter in the bananadine saga, and how looking to the past could help create the shipping of the future.