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Will Europe Close Its Borders to Migrants and Refugees?
Record numbers of migrants and refugees are fleeing wartorn and impoverished countries for Europe, sometimes losing their lives in the process. Can the European Union agree on a unified immigration strategy and maintain its open border policy while also cracking down on human trafficking?
By Barbara Bogaev • • 51m ListenRecord numbers of migrants and refugees are fleeing wartorn and impoverished countries for Europe, sometimes losing their lives in the process. Can the European Union agree on a unified immigration strategy and maintain its open border policy while also cracking down on human trafficking? Guest host Barbara Bogaev looks at Europe's migrant crisis.
Also, China and Russia use hacked data to identify American spies. On today's Talking Point: the man who introduced us to so many wonders of the mind and the heart. A scientist and a bookworm look back on the life and legacy of writer and scientist Oliver Sacks.
Photo: Asylum seekers wait outside a train station in Budapest, Hungary, on August 28, 2015. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
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3 storiesChina and Russia Using Hacked Data to ID US Spies
According to US officials, foreign espionage services in Russia and China are cross-indexing hacked US databases to target American intelligence officers. They've reportedly compromised at least one secret network of scientists and engineers who provide support to undercover operatives overseas so far.
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Last week's discovery of 71 bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria is just the latest tragic proof that Europe's migration crisis has broadened from the Mediterranean to human trafficking over land through Greece and the Balkan states.
Read the story32 minRemembering Oliver Sacks, the Poet Laureate of Modern Medicine
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival Photo by Luigi Novi The man with the seemingly insatiable curiosity for life left it on Sunday. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks died at the age of 82 of cancer. He…
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