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South Africa Arctic Expedition width No media source currently available 0:00 0:02:46 0:00 Two South African medics are swapping their medical gear for oars as they train for a risky 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) journey by rowboat through the Arctic Northwest Passage. If the 14-member team finishes the trip, across the north of Canada to Alaska, they will make history. Share

Brazil has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and tens of thousands of people are listed as missing – many of them at the hands of drug traffickers and other armed groups. Families say they often get little help from police.

Tonight on The Connection, host Mike Hove speaks to youth about the Sino Pharm COVID-19 Vaccine, which is, officially in circulation in the country, following its donation by China last week. We are also going to be celebrating the life of Soul Jah Love, a well-respected Dancehall musician who died at the age of 31 after succumbing to Diabetes.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is getting to work on Mars after Thursday’s successful – and suspenseful – landing on the red planet. Like millions around the world, VOA’s Kane Farabaugh watched event live, but from a Chicago planetarium otherwise closed to the public due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Britain’s departure from the European Union, following months of negotiations, has affected trade in many industries; but fishing has been hit particularly hard by the break known as “Brexit.” VOA’s Arash Arabasadi reports

Rush Limbaugh Impact: The American radio host and commentator Rush Limbaugh died this week at age 70 after a career that transformed American media and politics. Mike O’Sullivan looks back at the conservative icon.

Long shelved as a relic of the State of Israel’s socialist beginnings, the collective farm settlements known as Kibbutz – or Kibbutzim are making a comeback in the age of COVID, especially among young Israeli families. For VOA, Linda Gradstein from a Kibbutz near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip

Trump Political Future: Former President Donald Trump is out of office, but not out of politics. Trump remains popular among Republicans and he is now picking fights with some top leaders in a battle for control over the Republican Party. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has the story.

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On Thursday Democrats introduced a bill based on the Biden administration’s immigration priorities that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. Asylum-seekers who were forced to remain in Mexico under a controversial Trump-era policy are in the spotlight.