2025-07-20
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Cuba's Minister of Labour has resigned after claiming that there are no beggars on the Caribbean island.
That's just one of the myths surrounding the communist-led country.
So what's life really like there?
I'm William Lee Adams.
On What in the World?
we're lifting the veil on a frequently misunderstood country.
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I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Sunday the 20th of July these are our main stories.
As we record this podcast Damascus says it has halted sectarian clashes in southern Syria by deploying troops but there are signs it is still struggling to enforce a ceasefire.
More than 30 people have died in Vietnam where a tourist boat has capsized in a storm at sea.
The M23 rebels have agreed a ceasefire with government forces in eastern Congo.
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Tell them.
Tell them we are more than numbers, more than silent echoes in a ledger of loss.
We are families entwined in love, friends living in the shadows of our hoops bound by dreams.
We hear from the young poets of Gaza.
As we record this podcast,