World News Podcasts

Hong Kong has again erupted in protest over frustrations with Beijing’s increasingly iron-clad rule. In response, embattled Hong Kong government leader Carrie Lam has authorized aggressive police tactics. Communist Party of China leader Xi Jinping has threatened to send in domestic security forces to quell the demonstrators. In “Hong Kong on the Brink,” CSIS’s Freeman […]

Readings and discussions featuring today’s best authors, recorded live at Washington DC’s famous Politics and Prose bookstore.

This show brings awareness to China’s domestic and foreign policies through student dialogues and interviews with experts in the field.

Clive James presents reflections on topical issues ranging from politics to pop culture in this award-winning series of BBC Radio 4’s A Point of View. These programmes were first broadcast between 2007 and 2009.

International news that affects Americans. We explore world politics, business, and current events and their relation to American politics and businesses.

In this podcast, we capture the conversations in the Hindustan Times newsroom about the current issues and events. It gives a sneak peek into all things topical and making waves. This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.

The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies is the podium of choice for world leaders and policymakers. This podcast features those events and other specialist podcasts. www.rusi.org Tensions in the Gulf region have soared following a drone and missile attack on Saudi oil facilities, and the Kingdom is faced with a plethora […]

AfricArbitration is the podcast about Arbitration in Africa & Africa in arbitration. Produced by I-Arb Africa, it hosts dialogues and debates on arbitration related developments from across the continent through interviews with African arbitration experts

We are a network made up of various open grassroots think tanks working together on key issues in international affairs.

The private personalities behind SA’s powerful politicians.

News podcasts from a sleepy town in the English Sussex countyside, where nothing ever happens.

Podcasts on issues of world politics.

We unpack the mechanics of data journalism just a little bit and talk about what kind of data, whether from polls or hard numbers from previous elections, we have available to us in South Africa and lay out the kind of stories we will be uncovering using some of data analyst, Paul Berkowitz’s techniques. A […]

An interview series with leading policy scholars and practitioners, connecting academic research and ideas with the news of the day.

Middle East Weekly brings you the most important stories from the Middle East, taking you behind the headlines with analysis from across the region. If you’re interested in the Middle East, aren’t sure why it’s so important, or are just looking for a new way to fill your morning commute, give us a listen! Every […]

This is Enlightened Working Class podcast, where two middle-aged, London-born-and-bred men, Duncan MacDowall and Pascoe Sawyers, discuss a whole range of issues relating to religion, race, gender, science, politics, health, culture, history, society in general and everything else under the sun, from a working-class perspective.

“Boys go to Baghdad, but real men go to Tehran” was a joke in neocon circles during the Bush administration. We think it’s a glimpse of how duplicitous U.S. foreign policy is. Here we counter the type of propaganda that justified the invasion of Iraq, and continues to justify bitch-ass policy against Iran and countless […]

A new interview series from the American Iranian Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to improving relations between the US and Iran. This interview series covers all topics related to Iran, its culture and its people.

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A weekly podcast from the Asia experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who provide analysis on policy and trends in the region.

the Global Magazine of News and Ideas On the podcast: A scientist who is also an evangelical Christian wants conservatives to understand the dangers of climate change.

Each episode delves into the inner workings of one aspect of Nigerian life, and tries to explain why the seemingly most straightforward things don’t work the way they should, or do in other countries. HNW(BD) aims to bust the myth that Nigeria’s problems are unique, by showing the universal principles at work.

Our columnists from the award-winning opinion pages at The Wall Street Journal examine world news and foreign affairs twice a week. Get the information you need to understand the changing world, and its impact on U.S. and national interests. Published several times weekly. Joseph C. Sternberg and Mary Anastasia O’Grady discuss Brazilian voters’ revolt against […]

Hear what Israel’s top experts in the fields of intelligence, security, international relations and diplomacy have to say about Israel and the complexities of the Middle East in the 21st century.

A regular podcast series from African Defence Review, focusing on news, features and analysis of developments in peace and security on the African continent.

Intractable is a podcast about a well-covered, but often misunderstood, topic: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each episode takes on one subject—national identity, military culture, political extremism, historical memory, psychology, religion, and media coverage, among others—and investigates it through personal narratives and news stories. Through historical research and present-day interviews with people from myriad backgrounds, Intractable seeks […]

CFR experts give their take on the cutting-edge issues emerging in Asia today.

Through a series of expert interviews, this podcast mini-series explores some of the most pressing questions raised by the CSIS Middle East Program report, “Citizens in Training: Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates.” Hear from leading experts on the Gulf, the UAE, and modern militaries in general what the UAE’s bold experiment in […]

The show attempts to explore and educate ourselves and the listener on topics affecting many around the world- the subject matter will vary depending on current events

Rosie Motene is a Pan-African media proprietor. Her podcasts are focused around her three passions in life: women, Africa and the arts. Listen as she unpacks issues that all have a Pan-African feel.

World Update Daily Commute is no longer available to download but you can hear the best of World Update and all our BBC World Service news coverage in our Global News Podcast.

A weekly discussion about intelligence news from around the globe, featuring host Bob Knorpp and retired CIA station chief Scott Uehlinger.

Podcast by US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva

04-11-2017 – Mad Dog Mattis Gives Update To Syria Strikes Warns Assad Of Future Attacks audio English

Podcasts from the Department of Politics and International relations and its centres.

Are we at a series of global tipping points? Radio 4 explores the paradigm shifts that are taking place across the globe, from the arrival of the post-truth society to the potential departure of globalisation, taking in shifting demographic sands, the backlash against the political elite and pivot of power to the East along the […]

Take all the most important news that matters to you, add a constant infusion of entertainment and you get The Aaron Rand Show, weekdays from 3-7PM on CJAD. Interviews with top newsmakers, music, culture and so much more will keep you up to speed and entertained as you make your way home each day. CJAD […]

This is Ventures Africa Radio — we produce stories about an evolving Africa that inspire people to positively shape their context. We do this through insightful analysis, in-depth interviews and coverage of major issues/events.

In this ongoing series of short videos from the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at the Faculty of Law, academics from the around the University of Cambridge and beyond shed light on the key issues to be considered in the run up to the upcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union […]

Rou Reynolds does some thinking out loud.

First came This American Life, then came All Things Considered, now, from creators Eric Stolze and Zane Grant, a holier-than-thou glance at all the first-world-issues. ————————————————————— Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With so many things happening in the world, this podcast is here to break down all of the news stories you need to know from the past week. From good things to bad things, political things to trending things, weird things to fun things, and things we can’t believe are things, hosts Jenny Churchill and […]

Director Davis Guggenheim discusses the documentary about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who won the Nobel Peace Prize after being shot by the Taliban.

A daily public radio broadcast program and podcast from PRX and WGBH, hosted by Marco Werman

podcast about the new Zealand news that is not main stream

What are the prospects for cooperation or cooperation in the international system? Will states always be primarily concerned with their own security or is progressive change possible in international politics? Does it matter to international politics if states are democratic or not? And what is the importance of economic change, or gender relations to international […]

Issandr El Amrani, Ursula Lindsey and friends discuss the state of the Arab world, from Morocco to Saudi Arabia via Egypt.

The Think Africa Press is an online magazine that looks beyond the surface of global African news coverage. Bringing together writers from across Africa with international experts, and covering a wide range of topics – from politics to development to culture – Think Africa Press aims to provide greater depth, context and analysis to standard […]

GGSN International Conference 2013 On 8-9 November the conference was held at Glasgow University. The final list of speakers covered a wide range of specialties from senior civil servants and soldiers to academics from the United Kingdom and around the world. The speakers discussed the implications of Scottish independence and security not only for the […]

We mashup the world, bringing you a new perspective on the news.

The so-called Arab Spring continues to reverberate locally, regionally and geopolitically. The 20 articles in this issue of FMR reflect on some of the experiences, challenges and lessons of the Arab Spring in North Africa, the implications of which resonate far wider than the region itself. See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/north-africa Proud to be Tunisian.

This album features programming sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Affairs at the University of California, Davis, focused on global affairs and the foreign policy challenges that confront the United states today. The institute is drawing upon the expertise of UC Davis social scientists, and others, to provide analysis and commentary on critical issues in […]

The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the […]

Podcast series with Rosemary Foot, Professor of International Relations and Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College. Professor Foot talks about the relationship between America and China, the two most powerful nations in the world. The series looks at issues of the financial crisis, global warming, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and ways in […]

In April 2009 an earthquake struck central Italy, leading to the collapse of over 15,000 buildings. The disaster left 299 people dead, 1,500 injured and about 34,000 living in emergency shelters. UCL’s Dr Tiziana Rossetto led a team of earthquake experts to the devastated region to investigate why it suffered so much damage from an […]

Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

The most significant aspect of our learning is what we do with it. Speaking intelligently with real people about global conflicts and issues that affect them has substantial educational value for students. This production consists of authentic student work – mistakes and all. Innovation Diploma is an innovative educational program of The Mount Vernon Upper […]

VOA Africa reaches more than 25 million people on the web, social media, radio, and television. We deliver Africa-related content in English targeted to all 54 countries in Africa and the diaspora. Our programs engage audiences on a wide variety of topics including news, politics, science, technology, health, business, sports, music, and entertainment.