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Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. What's considered a disability in the United States or Western Europe can be completely debilitating in the developing world, where qualified surgeons and physicians are in short supply and even basic technology is difficult to find. That's particularly true of a widespread problem like blindness, an issue VICE explores in a n

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. We're in the thick of football season, and whether you're a college fan, an NFL fan, or a fantasy aficionado, there's plenty of pigskin in pristine stadiums to keep you entertained. But stadiums aren't the only place that the game is played. In neighborhoods like the South Bronx and East New York, the place you're most likely

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. VICE News filmmaker Medyan Dairieh traveled to northern Syria and went inside territory held by the Al Qaeda affiliated Al Nusra rebel group. He had exclusive access to youth camps where Nusra field commanders train boys to be the next generation of jihadists. "My father reminds me of Osama bin Laden, who terrorized and fought

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. Nearly a million people living in the Washington D.C. metro area hold top-secret security clearances. They work at federal intelligence agencies and for private intelligence contractors. These workers often get there by way of colleges and universities funded by intelligence agencies and led by administrators with strong ties

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. The Pentagon has begun searching for sites in the U.S. to house prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Yesterday, The Takeaway spoke to Mike Patterson, city manager of Florence, Colorado, where the Maximum Security Federal Correctional Institute prison complex houses 420 prisoners, including shoe bomber Richard Rei

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. The summer produce lining the aisles of American supermarkets come with a hidden cost—much of the fruits and vegetables from the agricultural giant south of our border, Mexico, is harvested by day laborers who work the fields under the worst possible conditions. According to a new investigation from VICE News, an estimated 2

Click on the audio player above to hear the full interview. The number of worldwide refugees last year totaled over 50 million — the highest since World War II. They've come from most corners of the world — but nowhere, perhaps, has more attention than the Mediterranean Sea, where approximately 200,000 people have attempted the journey to Europe from Syria, the Middle East and

Click on the audio player above to hear this story. On the coast of Yemen, on a picturesque peninsula overlooking the Red Sea, is the ancient seaport city of Aden. For centuries, fortunate hunters from nations as varied as Portugal and China have descended on Aden, an ideal trading port. But in recent months the city has been under siege, with Houthi rebel fighters, who already hav

Click on the audio player above to hear this story. On the streets it's known as K2 or Spice. This new drug comes complete with dangerous health effects, and its low cost and low profile under the law continue to fuel its popularity in Brooklyn's homeless community. The drug was originally created by American scientists who wanted a synthetic version of marijuana for laboratory pur

On Monday, a Taliban suicide attack on the Afghan Parliament left at least 18 wounded. But the chaos of the attack, which coincided with a vote to endorse the country's new defense minister, highlights the country's persistent instability. Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council is meeting today to discuss Afghanistan's future. U.S. troops are slowly exiting the country, but