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With 55 million articles in more than 300 languages, Wikipedia attracts 1.7 billion visitors every month.

The freely editable content project is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. As of 2020, the foundation employs more than 300 people and has annual revenues of more than $100m.

But at a time when truth is under assault like never before, what role does Wikipedia play in the media ecosystem? What steps is it taking to counter misinformation? And when it comes to hate speech online - should technology giants and social media platforms be the ones to moderate that?

We speak to Katherine Maher, the CEO of Wikimedia.

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) accounts for a large share of the world’s petroleum production and exports.

But despite the region’s natural wealth, years of conflict and turmoil have triggered many political and economic challenges: from the Arab Spring to civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen; from the fragile economies of Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia to the COVID-19 pandemic.

So, is there hope for the economies in the region? And how can they find a way forward? We speak to Ferid Belhaj, the World Bank vice president for the MENA region.

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) accounts for a large share of the world’s petroleum production and exports.

But despite the region’s natural wealth, years of conflict and turmoil have triggered many political and economic challenges: from the Arab Spring to civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen; from the fragile economies of Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia to the COVID-19 pandemic.

So, is there hope for the economies in the region? And how can they find a way forward? We speak to Ferid Belhaj, the World Bank vice president for the MENA region.

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We often hear people say: "The sky is the limit.”

But some choose to chase their dreams far beyond that.

One of them is NASA’s aerospace engineer Diana Trujillo.

At just 17, Diana packed her bags and, without speaking any English and only $300 in her pocket, migrated to the United States.

Trujillo is now a lead engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But how did she get there? And how has her journey as an immigrant influenced her work?

NASA’s aerospace engineer Diana Trujillo talks to Al Jazeera.

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We often hear people say: "The sky is the limit.”

But some choose to chase their dreams far beyond that.

One of them is NASA’s aerospace engineer Diana Trujillo.

At just 17, Diana packed her bags and, without speaking any English and only $300 in her pocket, migrated to the United States.

Trujillo is now a lead engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But how did she get there? And how has her journey as an immigrant influenced her work?

NASA’s aerospace engineer Diana Trujillo talks to Al Jazeera.

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More than a million refugees have made the desperate journey to Europe in the last five years, risking it all.

Once they get there, they are often left for months on end waiting for an answer to their asylum requests.

But there is another side to this story. Some in the communities that host them say they feel forgotten too, left to deal with a problem that Europe does not want.

The shores of the Greek island of Lesbos have been the landing point for refugees for decades.

How has the island been affected?

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More than a million refugees have made the desperate journey to Europe in the last five years, risking it all.

Once they get there, they are often left for months on end waiting for an answer to their asylum requests.

But there is another side to this story. Some in the communities that host them say they feel forgotten too, left to deal with a problem that Europe does not want.

The shores of the Greek island of Lesbos have been the landing point for refugees for decades.

How has the island been affected?

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André Rieu is reputed to have revolutionised the classical music industry.

His extravagant tours and productions are compared with pop and rock superstars. But some classical music critics refuse to take Rieu’s work seriously, some condemn it as a commodified performance and not art.

On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, we travel to the Netherlands to meet the so-called “King of Waltz” in his very own castle.

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André Rieu is reputed to have revolutionised the classical music industry.

His extravagant tours and productions are compared with pop and rock superstars. But some classical music critics refuse to take Rieu’s work seriously, some condemn it as a commodified performance and not art.

On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, we travel to the Netherlands to meet the so-called “King of Waltz” in his very own castle.

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Representatives of 196 countries gathered in Paris at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 12, 2015.

The summit brought them together to draft an agreement on sustainability for the planet.

The main long-term goal: turning back the clock on global warming by limiting temperatures to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

But as no mechanism forces a country to set a specific emissions target by a specific date, is the Paris agreement succeeding, five years on?

Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, talks to Al Jazeera.

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