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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2019, the children of genocide survivors and perpetrators play together in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, near Nyamata, in Rwanda. Twenty-five years after the genocide the country has six
Community

25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? 6 villages try

Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbor with a machete. Today he lives near the widow of the man he killed. And somehow they are friends.

7 years ago

In this Oct. 18, 2018, file photo, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah attends a round table meeting at the ASEM 12 in Brussels. (Francisco Seco/AP Photo, File)
Education

Oxford University to rethink degree given to Brunei sultan

The university said on Saturday it shared the "international revulsion" the laws induced and that it would reconsider a 1993 decision to confer the honorary degree.

7 years ago

Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican for a audience with students and teachers of the San Carlo Institute of Milan, Saturday, April 6, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pope blames Europe, U.S. for selling weapons in war zones

The pontiff said that "a country that produces and sells weapons has on its conscience the death of every child and the destruction of each family."

7 years ago

The office of International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (center) says her visa for U.S. travel has been stripped. The State Department confirmed the move Friday.
(Koen Van Weel /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

U.S. strips visa from International Criminal Court prosecutor pursuing war crimes inquiry

While the U.S. claims its citizens and military personnel are outside of the ICC's jurisdiction, the court says Afghanistan is within its purview.

7 years ago

Anti-Brexit demonstrators with an effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May near College Green at the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, April 1, 2019. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Politics & Policy

U.K. Parliament rejects alternatives to May’s Brexit deal

Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country's Brexit morass on Monday rejected four alternatives to the government's unpopular European Union divorce deal.

7 years ago

Protesters run to cover from teargas fired by Israeli troops near fence of Gaza Strip border with Israel on Saturday. The day marked the first anniversary of the Gaza border protests. (Adel Hana/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

4 Palestinians killed along Gaza border in ‘Great March of Return’ protest

Expecting the violence to continue escalating on Saturday, Israel had beefed up its forces at the border in preparation for the demonstration.

7 years ago

Protesters are seen with placards and Union Jack flags in front of Victoria Tower during the demonstration. Leave campaigners protest against the delay to Brexit, on the day that UK was due to leave the European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was defeated for a third time by a margin of 58 votes. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Politics & Policy

Brexit creates power vacuum at heart of Britain’s government

A power vacuum has paralyzed the heart of Britain's government, dismaying both the European Union and the British public.

7 years ago

Pope Francis, pictured earlier this week, unveiled a new mandatory-reporting edict on Friday. It requires any Vatican official who learns of an allegation of abuse within the city-state or by Vatican officials to report it to Vatican prosecutors. (Andrew Medichini/AP)
NPR
Community

Pope Francis: Vatican officials required to report sex abuse allegations or face jail time

Pope Francis issued a new decree making it mandatory for Vatican officials to report allegations of sexual abuse to authorities or face possible jail time.

7 years ago

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers after the government's Brexit withdrawal agreement was voted down in the House of Commons, London, Friday March 29, 2019.  U.K. lawmakers on Friday rejected the government's Brexit divorce deal with the European Union for a third time. (House of Commons via AP)
Politics & Policy

UK faces new Brexit crisis after lawmakers reject May’s deal

British lawmakers on Friday rejected the government's Brexit deal for a third time, leaving the U.K. facing the stark prospect of a chaotic departure from the European Union.

7 years ago

Westminster Choir College’s Williamson Hall in Princeton, NJ. (Provided)
Arts & Entertainment

Rider University delays sale of Westminster Choir College to Chinese company

The sale of a New Jersey music college to a Chinese company has been delayed after the state said it needs more information.

7 years ago

Chris Nickels for NPR
NPR
Health

Is it time to rethink the fly-in medical mission?

These trips — where volunteers from the West visit poorer countries to perform surgeries — are a billion-dollar endeavor. Is it the best way to provide health care?

7 years ago

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May walks out 10 Downing street in London on Wednesday. She announced that if her Brexit deal is approved by Parliament, she will step down from her post. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Theresa May agrees to quit if Brexit deal passes in UK Parliament

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday that she will resign if Parliament will pass her Brexit deal, which has already been defeated twice.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 25, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump formally recognizes Israeli control of Golan Heights

Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war but its sovereignty over the territory is not recognized by the international community.

7 years ago

A Humvee drives in a village recently retaken from Islamic State militants by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near Baghouz, on Feb. 17.
(Felipe Dana/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

With the collapse of the ISIS ‘caliphate,’ a camera lens lingers on those left behind

As U.S.-backed forces fought to reclaim the last territory held by ISIS in Syria, photographer Felipe Dana turned his lens on the thousands of civilians rushing to evacuate.

7 years ago

In this March 18, 2019, file photo, a student lights candle during a vigil to commemorate victims of March 15 shooting, outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned a 74-page manifesto written by a man accused of massacring 50 people at two mosques. (Vincent Yu/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

New Zealand mosque killings spark debate over free speech

The ban means anybody caught with the manifesto on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison, while anyone caught sending it could face 14 years.

7 years ago

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