The World from PRX

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Valerie Hamilton

A spacious restaurant interior with light wood furnishings and large windows, filled with people seated at wooden tables. Decorative elements and a mezzanine level are visible in the background. The atmosphere is lively and casual.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Help wanted: Germany hires its next generation of workers from abroad
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Can foreign apprentices save Germany’s small business economy
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Transportation
How many jokes does it take to make Germany’s trains run on time?
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The trains in Germany don’t run on time
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Economics
A place where they haven’t raised the rent in 500 years
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World’s oldest affordable housing project costs just $1 per year
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Global Politics
The tug-of-war over an anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy
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The trans-Atlantic tussle over an anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy
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Germany’s ‘Vote-o-Mat’ helps voters choose candidates
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Howling with the pack in Germany
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Conflict & Justice
Fighting for the future in Germany
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Uncategorized
A bumpy ride down East Germany’s memory lane
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Fighting for the future with the past
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German students fight radicalization in the classroom
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Arts, Culture & Media
Germany’s culture war over animal welfare 
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Germany’s culture war over animal welfare
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Lifestyle
For Germany’s beer capital, a new buzz
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A new buzz in Germany’s beer capital
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kids climate march
Climate Change
How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
three marble structures lined up
Greece hopes Brexit will stir a renewed debate over Parthenon Marbles
forest
Environment
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
Recyo
Environment
What Munich’s coffee houses learned about waste from beer culture
City Hostel Berlin
Economics
North Korean diplomats are beating sanctions to raise cash with this Berlin hostel
A hill of coal sits under a shelter at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine. The mine is closing after 150 years.
Environment
In Germany, miners and others prepare for a soft exit from hard coal
Women hold bags and signs that read: "Same pay for same work" at a rally for equal pay in Berlin, Germany, 2015.
Jobs
Women in Germany’s east earn close to what men do. Can we thank socialism for that?
A section of the Hambach lignite mine in Germany's Rhineland coal fields, whose coal-fired power plants, run by power giant RWE, are one of Europe's largest sources of CO2 emissions.
Environment
Germany talks a good game on climate, but it’s still stuck on coal
Outside the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born there's a block of stone from the Mauthausen concentration camp. It reads "for peace freedom and democracy, never again fascism, remember the millions of dead."
Conflict
How Hitler’s birthplace in Austria handles its unwanted landmark
Ube ice cream
Food
Travel the world on an ice cream tour in Los Angeles
Bijan Khalili
Books
Step inside a Los Angeles bookstore that takes on Iran’s censors
LettuceBot in the field
Jobs
No farm workers? How about a robot.
Garment
Economics
California’s undocumented workers help the economy grow – but may pay the cost
Music
How ‘Guantanamera’ went from Cuba’s unofficial anthem to a Swedish recycling jingle
Saudi singer Rotana Tarabzouni at home in Los Angeles.
Music
Saudi singer: People say, ‘I hope you die, I hope you burn in hell, you’re a slut.’
paper
Media
Why you won’t see Ho Chi Minh City appear in this newspaper in California
A large number of Armenian refugees live in the Los Angeles area. Every year the Armenian Christ Church hosts a Thanksgiving feast featuring traditional American and Armenian dishes.
Belief
For these Iranian Armenian refugees, Thanksgiving brings back memories of arriving in the US
Marcus Teply
Music
Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ faces his hardest task yet — writing about ISIS
Ashraf Abdulahad
Conflict & Justice
Iraqi Christians in California are safely out of Mosul, but they are still affected by ISIS
Arts, Culture & Media
How the US is trying to deter migrants from Central America — with music
An undocumented immigrant pages through the California driver's manual. “Of course they know how to drive,” says Los Angeles Mexican consul Carlos Sada of undocumented immigrants preparing to take the driver's test. “But do they know the rules? That is a
Development & Education
How California is preparing undocumented immigrants for a life-changing test
A Quebec City carnival-goer warms up with a cold one – Caribou on ice. Quebec consumes up to 5,000 cases of Caribou yearly, nearly all of it during the winter carnival, and most of that outdoors.
Lifestyle & Belief
Quebec’s secret recipe for beating the cold? It’s Caribou.
Korean American activist Phyllis Kim at the Glendale, California, memorial for "comfort women."
Global Politics
A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan
Grgich and partner Austin Hills break ground on the Grgich Hills winery, July 4, 1977. Grgich called it “my independence day.”
Business, Economics and Jobs
Here’s the story of a Croatian immigrant who landed with $32 and conquered California’s wine world
Most of the original Bangla-Pesa notes were confiscated by police when Ruddick and others were arrested. Since then, the community has had to print new notes with holograms and security seals to prepare to relaunch the program.
Business, Economics and Jobs
An African slum lacked cash, so people made their own
Elvis, the Kenyan King
Arts, Culture & Media
If it’s country music and it’s Kenya, it must be Elvis
Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park. Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.
Environment
Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race
Philip Ogola runs Kenya Red Cross's social media command center from his desk in Nairobi.
Conflict & Justice
When there’s no 911, Kenya tweets for help
Arts, Culture & Media
Net Savvy Activists Keep Vietnamese Bloggers One Step Ahead of Authorities
Arts, Culture & Media
LaBrassBanda’s International Music with Bavarian Roots
Loved ones separated by the U.S.-Mexico border meet at Friendship Park
Conflict & Justice
Families Divided by US-Mexico Border Meet Across the Fence
Arts, Culture & Media
Dance Floor Politics in Tijuana with the Band Los Macuanos
Sports
Mexico May be the Secret to California Town’s Baseball Success