After Mubarak, Egypt Appears Ready To Elect Another Military Man
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: And so as Leila just told us, Egyptians appear ready to elect a military man - which in a way seems amazing considering the images we remember from three years ago. At...
View ArticleCuba's Budding Entrepreneurs Travel A Rocky Road Toward Success
When Americans think of business in Cuba, they think of government-owned enterprise. And the vast majority of Cubans do work for the state.But in recent years, private business owners known as...
View ArticleCuba's Mariel Port: Once An Escape, Now A Window To The Future
When you arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, you're greeted with a barrage of billboards with the popular Cuban government slogan promoting tourism: "Cuba, where the past and the...
View ArticleTourism Money Flows Into Cuba, Bringing Economic Hopes And Fears
Every morning, Manuel Landin Rodriguez walks past the luxurious state-owned Xanadu Mansion hotel and crosses its neatly trimmed golf course all the way to its edge. He camps out on the cliff...
View ArticleLiberia Blocks Off Neighborhood In Ebola Quarantine, Sparking Riot
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Liberia has been overwhelmed by the Ebola outbreak. This country has seen the highest number of deaths so far....
View ArticleRochester Focuses On A New Picture Of American Manufacturing
Rochester, N.Y., was once the imaging capital of the world, home to Kodak, Xerox and the eye care company, Bausch + Lomb.Led by these companies, the manufacturing sector once employed 60 percent of...
View ArticleClosed McDonald's In Moscow Taken As A Political Message
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View ArticleIn Crimea, Many Signs Of Russia, Few Of Resistance
Morning Edition host David Greene and producer Lauren Migaki traveled to Crimea to see what's changed since Russia sent troops in this spring and shortly afterward annexed the territory despite...
View ArticleCrimean Tatars Pressured To Become Russian Citizens
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: All this week we're reporting from Crimea. The Vermont-sized peninsula on the Black Sea was forcibly taken from...
View ArticleAs Crimea's Borders Change, So Do Lives
It's like a scene from an old Soviet movie playing out before our eyes in 2014.Dozens of young Crimeans, with innocent faces and crisp blue uniforms, stand at attention and declare oaths of loyalty to...
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