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Watching the Kavanaugh hearing

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday and unequivocally said before the US Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. The World's Carol Hills and Andrea Crossan were watching and tracking reaction around the globe.

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‘It’s a dangerous time’

Former Secretary of State John Kerry has pursued multilateral diplomacy for decades. Host Marco Werman asks him what it’s like to watch the White House attempt to unravel his key achievements.

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Russia and the 2016 US election 

University of Pennsylvania professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson conducted a "forensic examination" of media coverage, polling data and hacking. Host Marco Werman talks to her about her new book, "Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President."

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Climate change clues in Greenland

Scientists used to think that the Greenland ice sheet wouldn't melt even if the world warmed up significantly. Now a group of researchers isn't so sure, and they're hunting around for more clues to what may lie ahead for the huge island and for us. Janet Babin reports in the second of her three-part series on Greenland, New York and climate change.

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China’s feminist awakening

Leta Hong Fincher is the author of the new book, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China." Host Marco Werman talks to Hong Fincher about the Feminist Five, a group of young women who were arrested in China in 2015 for protesting sexual harassment, the emerging #MeToo movement there, and reactions on the Brett Kavanaugh hearing.

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Watching Kavanaugh hearing, China's feminist awakening, melting ice sheets in Greenland

Marco Werman

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 2018.

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The risk of banking 'contagion' 

Aïda Muluneh's "To pursue the ceaseless way," is exhibited on a bus stop in the Boston area. The photograph is part of "This is where I am," presented by New York-based Public Art Fund.

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Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."

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Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led attacks, March 20, 2003.

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An Iraq vet grapples with lingering toll of war 

Colleagues gather at a cafeteria in the offices of Picsart, in Yerevan, Armenia.

Ukraine

Russia's war turns Armenia into a booming tech sector

Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.

Russia’s new Fan ID law seen as new form of authoritarian surveillance

Redevelopment proposal for Mumbai's largest informal settlement stirs controversy

Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Vodou goddesses and saints.

Music

Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage

A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.

Infrastructure

This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters

Wind generators near the Indigenous town of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Mexico.

Development

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor aims to rival the Panama Canal

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