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The World in Brief from The Economist - Trump announces new tariffs on China; Macron re-appoints PM, and more
Two powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Mindanao, an island in the southern Philippines
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1455: Dentistry
Episode: 1455 A brief history of dentistry and pain. Today, we drill teeth.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?
In a recent speech to the UN, US president Donald Trump set out some remarkable figures on the proportion of inmates in European prisons who were foreign nationals.
Citing statistics from the Council of Europe, he references Greece, Germany and Austria, as having rates around 50%.
“In Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland,” he said “72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland.” These numbers are correct, but why are the percentages so high – particularly in Switzerland?
Tim Harford speaks to Professor Marcelo Aebi, a criminologist from the University of Lausanne, who wrote the prisons report for the Council of Europe.
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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - What Jane Goodall Teaches Us About Outsider Thought
Pioneering primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall died last week at 91. Nate and Maria talk about Jane’s career path and how her research influenced the fields of both animal and human cognition. They also discuss the significance of the outsider status she held when she began her research, and what everyone can learn from outsiders.
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In May 2024, Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petrichuk, the director and writer of an experimental play, became the first Russian artists since Soviet times to be put on trial for the content of their work. It was a show trial. Like all show trials its outcome was preordained. But when professional actors took the stand, it turned it into a different kind of show—one that put the spotlight on a radical ideology that has gripped the Russian state.
In a bonus episode of our Next Year in Moscow series, The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky presents a dramatisation of that trial to find out why the Russian state needed to make an example of a fringe production and, more importantly, its director.
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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 203
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
- The Riyadh Comedy Festival
- The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
- Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
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ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
The Riyadh Comedy Festival
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
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https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/
Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
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President Trump has said he will impose additional 100% import tariffs on Chinese goods by next month, and put export controls on any and all critical software. He said this was in response to China placing new restrictions on exports of crucial rare earth minerals. The news led to US stock markets registering their biggest one-day fall in months. Also: Palestinians in Gaza returning to their homes following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas say they've been shocked by the scale of destruction; the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just four days after he resigned from the role; the green turtle has been rescued from the brink of extinction in what scientists are calling a major conservation victory.
CBS News Roundup - 10/10/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition
19 people are missing and feared dead after an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant.
Layoffs begin at federal agencies as the government shutdown drags on.
Cease fire holds in Gaza as some Palestinians begin to return home.
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PBS News Hour - World - Displaced Gazans begin returning to shattered communities as ceasefire takes effect
For the first time in more than six months, the guns have gone silent in Gaza. Palestinians and Israelis are saying tonight they hope this ceasefire will prove to be the end of the war. Palestinians used the respite from relentless bombing to start picking up the pieces. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy