El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border
The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera’s is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative US-Mexico drug trade.
In an Oval Office speech, Trump demands a wall but does not declare emergency
Artists often play a part in the struggle against barriers. The World’s Gerry Hadden has been looking into songs that symbolized the struggle against the divided Germany. He didn’t find many. But the few he found mostly came from the former East Germany.
Twenty years ago, the wall that divided East and West Berlin came down in dramatic fashion. Since that time, the Berlin Wall has been broken up. Former Berlin resident Juliane Camfield tells Alex Gallafent she could never own a piece of the wall.
More than 90 people were killed after a car bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan. The blast came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a visit to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The World’s Jason Margolis reports.
