Myanmar’s military hands power to civilian NLD with Suu Kyi near the top Pakistan anti-terrorism sweep nets thousands after Easter attack, most released but hundreds still detained Sectarian tensions within migrant populations increase complexity...
Pro-democracy icon Ang Sang Suu Kyi is making good on her pledge to wrest political control of Myanmar from the military junta that has run the country also known as Burma for the last...
The FCC took steps to narrow the digital divide in the United States this week. The vote proved contentious, but in the end the commission approved a subsidy to help low-income consumers afford broadband...
All photos by Bismillah Geelani. Hear/read his accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
India’s capital, New Delhi, is getting a makeover with dozens of local and international street artists setting out on a mission to transform the city’s landscape. With a view to making art accessible to...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today called on countries to resettle nearly half a million Syrian refugees — so far places have been found for only about 185,000. His remarks came at...
A new study by the federally-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory has significantly increased estimates of solar power’s potential to meet energy needs in the United States. The research examined a number of factors in 128...
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear/read her accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
Three days of mourning began in Pakistan Monday, following an Easter Sunday suicide bombing in a public park in Lahore killed more than 70 people, most of them women and children. From Pakistan, FSRN’s...
It’s been a decade since Western powers placed economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip after a Hamas in Palestinian parliamentary elections. Shortly after Hamas took power in March of 2006, the U.S., EU and Canada cut...
Brussels attacks kill 31, injure hundreds and exacerbate regional tensions on migrant issue EU-Turkey deal fails to deter Afghan youths’ drive to migrate International Criminal Court returns guilty verdicts in two major cases Obama...
Brazil is currently reeling from political and economic crises that have left the country shaken and polarized. A two year corruption investigation into a kickback scheme at the state oil company Petrobras is coming...
In the past year, Oklahoma had more than 900 earthquakes. That’s up from only three quakes in 2007, before the dramatic increase in fracking. The Oklahoma Geological Survey says that it now “considers it...
As President Barack Obama’s tenure nears its end, he has circled back to an early promise – to shut down the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This week that plan got significant push-back...
FSRN Weekly Edition – April 1, 2016
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FCC moves to decrease the digital divide
1 Apr, 2016
Urban artists give New Delhi a muralist makeover
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Nasa Resistance: Defending Land, Life and Culture
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Just Harvest: urban farming in a climate crisis
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