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Cuban Spirit Washes Ashore At Davis

President Obama isn’t the only one opening doors to Cuba.

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School Board Approves Trips Abroad

The Board of Education has voted to approve New Haven schools’ international trips for the coming year, after a debate over perils in the modern era of terrorism..

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Nagasaki Noted, With Silence & Warnings

Joshua Buddington — who was born on Aug. 6, the date in 1945, that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima — happened to be wandering near the flagpole of the New Haven Green at precisely 11:02 on...

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Pipeline [Controversy] Runs Through Downtown

With pulsating Native American drumming and signs and chants declaring “Drink Water, Not Oil,” “Move to Clean Energy,” and “Hey, hey, ho ho, Dakota Access Got to Go,” demonstrators staged an anti-crude...

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City, Changsha Sign “Sister City” Intent

While their national governments argue and negotiate conflicts, the cities of New Haven and Changsha are on their way to establishing official friendship ties.

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How She Got The World The Story

The coup leaders ordered CNN’s live-feed quashed. Eileen O’Connor had other ideas.

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Today on WNHH Radio

Friday’s programs celebrate northern Chinese cuisine, dig into the week’s news, and take a look at women’s economic self-sufficiency around the world.

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Lions Dance, & “Sisters” Toast

Saturday began with a colorful parade through downtown marking the Chinese New Year and was capped with a toast to New Haven’s budding relationship with its Chinese soon-to-be sister city of Changsha —...

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From New Haven To Turkey, With Layers

As she mourned her adopted country’s turn away from a world humanitarian crisis, Vietnamese refugee Trinh Truony found a reason to maintain hope — with the help of eight stuffed suitcases from New Haven.

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New Hub Lands In New Haven For Brazilian Start-Ups

New Haven’s ties to Brazil are getting a little stronger thanks to the start of a new venture that seeks to help businesses from that country gain a foothold in the U.S.

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“Hypocritical,”“Ill Thought-Out”

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy Friday blasted the Trump administration for the firing of 59 missiles at a Syrian air base, saying responses to Syrian war crimes should be better thought out as part...

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Holocaust Remembrance Message: “I’m Alive”

As the Jews of Warsaw struggled to stay alive during the early years of World War II, 15-year-old Helene Rosenberg was used to her older brother bringing her back a tchothke — Yiddish for a toy or some...

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At Ramadan Feast, It’s 3 Down, 28 To Go

As night fell at Brick Oven Pizza restaurant on Howe Street, Kadir Catalbasoglu lifted a steaming spoonful of şehriye çorbasi  —  a tomato-based soup with thin noodles — to his mouth. It was the first...

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ECA, China Sign Arts Pact

Newly successful middle and well-to-do classes in China admire America’s immersion in contemporary art and arts education, and want that for their own children.

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New Haven, Changsha Sign Sister-City Pact

The half-Chinese and half-African-American McCollum sisters have been speaking Cantonese at home all their lives. Thursday morning they put their linguistic talents to inspirational use, only they had...

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Sister Cities, UNH Join Forces

New Haven Sister Cities just got a whole school full of new ambassadors for the cause of peace thanks to a newly minted partnership with the University of New Haven.

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Pols Seize On Loosening Gun Lobby Grip

New Haven’s Congressional delegation joined more than 100 anti-gun violence advocates on the steps of the New Haven Police Department Friday morning to call on federal lawmakers to support what they...

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Two Teachers Face History —& The Grief After Violence

Two men, Tommy and Petesy, stand on a stage. They’re side by side, but an ocean apart. Tommy’s a boxer in New Haven who’s taken a couple punches. Petesy is a tall man whose life in Belfast, Northern...

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Reinaldo’s Corner

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Harp To Pitch Businesses On China Trip

New Haven is on the hunt for new employers — in China.

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