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Music Heard on the Air for August 20, 2013

Music Heard on Air

Tunes spun throughout The World on August 20, 2013: Kaleidoscope Jukebox, The Spy from Cairo, Nickodemus and an Iranian oldie but goodie by Hamid Shabkhiz.

VIDEO: 3 American students released as American journalist describes beating at hands of Egyptian authorities

VIDEO: Three American college students arrested in Egypt

The World

Foreign Correspondent: When Becoming a Father Poses a New Set of Professional Challenges

Lifestyle & Belief
The World

From the Stadium to the Streets, Why a Soccer Riot has Turned Political

Sports

Deadly Soccer Riots in Egypt Spark Conspiracy Theories

The images of brutality are grim: 74 Egyptians dead but the scene is not Tahrir square in Cairo but a soccer field in the Egyptian city of Port Said. A riot at a soccer match between the team from Port Said and a team from Cairo is responsible for those fatalities and it has sent […]

Syria’s Opposition National Council

Conflict & Justice

Radwan Ziadeh of the Syrian National Council tells anchor Marco Werman about the group’s plans to meet with the Arab League in Cairo.

Revolutionary spirit

This was a demonstration we came across in downtown Cairo in front of a state insurance company. Managers and employees were on strike, demanding back pay from executives who they say had basically raided the company cash register […]

Post-Cairo Conference Progress

Host Steve Curwood speaks with Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth on what the U.S. has done since the United Nations Conference on Population last fall.

The World

Riot police deployed across Cairo

Conflict & Justice

Today, riot police have been deployed across the city in anticipation of further protests. Egyptian authorities have banned street protests today. The BBC’s Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.