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15'
Afghanistan: Resisting the Taliban
Afghanistan - 2021
The Taliban have been in power in Afghanistan since August. Since then, they have been consolidating their rule. However, some resistance groups continue to be active, especially in the Panshir Valley.
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06'
Bridging the Digital Divide
United States - 2021
Internet access is a struggle for millions. And now that COVID-19 has pushed even more everyday activities into online spaces, limited or no internet can mean no work, no school, and a widening digital divide.
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27'
Scottish Independence: Union in Trouble
United Kingdom - 2021
As the UK continues to come to grips with Brexit, tensions surrounding Scotland's future with Westminster and Brussels continue to mount across the nation.
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14'
Tribal Lands
United States - 2021
To Native American tribes, property rights are a foreign concept: the land is not to be owned, it is to be cared for. But the realities of modern life mean they have to work within a system, not of their making. From 1877 to 1934, under a range of laws and reneged-upon treaties, the U.S. government appropriated tens of millions of acres of Native American land. In recent years there has been a growing movement known as “land back” to reclaim their lands. In some cases that has meant tribes are choosing to buy it back on the open market.
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08'
Election Protest
Iraq - 2021
Iraq has held its fifth election since the US-led invasion in 2003. The government is portraying the election as fulfilling the public demand for change but protesters denounce it as neither free nor fair.
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07'
Seattle's Afghan Refugees
United States - 2021
The swift fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban and the refugee crisis in the conflict-torn nation is a painful reminder to many Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom were forced to leave their nation after Saigon fell in 1975. Special Correspondent Mike Cerre reports on how the Vietnamese community in Seattle is reaching out to help Afghan refugees.
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28'
Tensions with Australia
China - 2021
China has a strained relationship with many countries, including Australia. The tensions are playing out through trade wars, intensified by the launch of an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19.
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31'
Destination Mars
United States - 2021
The space sector is being rapidly commercialized, helmed by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Musk's next big project? The Starship - a spacecraft whose mission is to transport humans as far as Mars.
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25'
Water Shortages
Switzerland - 2021
Global warming is increasingly threatening the security of our water supplies. Every summer, the water levels of rivers decrease drastically. In France, villages now have to be supplied with drinking water by truck, farmers have to buy water for their livestock. Soils are so drained that they subside and bring about the collapse of house foundations. The return of winter rains is not enough to make up for the worrying water shortage. How did it come to this? What can be done to ensure politicians take full measure of the profound environment changes now at work? Our journalists investigate on water shortage in France and Switzerland.
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29'
Tensions With Taiwan
Taiwan, Province of China - 2021
Taiwan has become the frontline in the new cold war between China and the West. As the threat of invasion looms, Taiwanese people reassert their independence, and hope for support from the West.