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Fisherman Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan on Aug. 7. <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-30988/aral-sea"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

January 05, 2025
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Protesters stage a rally demanding the arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday. The letters read "Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol."

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South Korean protesters brave cold to demand Yoon's ouster as detention deadline looms

South Koreans rallied overnight near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol calling for his arrest, as authorities prepared to renew their efforts to detain him.

January 05, 2025
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This photo provided by Ashiya City shows Tomiko Itooka, being celebrated for her 116th birthday at the nursing home she lives in Ashiya, western Japan, on May 23, 2024.

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Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

January 04, 2025
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BH talking to his family through the phone in the background and photos of the family in the foreground.

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Reporters' notebook: revisiting Afghan refugees starting anew in the U.S.

NPR reporters revisit Afghans who fled their home country after Taliban's takeover in the summer of 2021.

December 31, 2024
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Rescue team carry the body of a passenger at the site of a plane fire at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Sunday.

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South Korea to inspect Boeing aircraft as it struggles to find cause of plane crash

Many worry how effectively the South Korean government will handle the disaster as it grapples with a leadership vacuum after the impeachments of the country's top two officials.

December 31, 2024
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American flags are displayed with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on Sept. 16, 2018, in Beijing.

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  • World

Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed documents in 'major' cyber incident

The revelation comes as the U.S. grapples with a massive cyberespionage campaign that gave Chinese officials access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.

December 31, 2024
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China's then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and President Jimmy Carter sign historic diplomatic agreements between the United States and China in 1979.

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Carter made the decision to establish relations with China

Carter helped make ties between Washington and Beijing, ushering in an era of engagement that brought China out of isolation and underpinned its meteoric economic rise.

December 30, 2024
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  • John Ruwitch
Firefighters and rescue team members work at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday.

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Plane crashes and bursts into flames at an airport in South Korea, killing at least 179

Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall.

December 29, 2024
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday.

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Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani leader for 'tragic incident' involving crashed plane

The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the airliner attempted to land, but stopped short of saying it was shot down by Russian air defenses.

December 28, 2024
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South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo speaks at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

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South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament votes to impeach acting president

The impeachments of the country's president and then acting-president worsen the nation's political turmoil, deepen its economic uncertainty and hurt its international image.

December 27, 2024
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh waves to a crowd in Kolkata, India, in 2011.

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Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister from 2004 to 2014, has died

Singh was known as the father of economic reforms in India. He served as finance minister in the early 1990s, and his policies then set India on the path of economic liberalization and globalization.

December 26, 2024
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  • Sushmita Pathak
A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

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Mourners mark 20 years since Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

December 26, 2024
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Cyclists pass police standing next to a burning makeshift tyre barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon's South Okkalapa township on April 1, 2021.

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How hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

December 23, 2024
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  • Derek Mitchell
Visitors look at a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the tsunami 2004 in Tsunami memorial park, at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand.

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Trauma lingers on for survivors of the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.

December 23, 2024
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Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida, left, and Honda President Toshihiro Mibe attend a joint news conference in Tokyo, Friday, March 15, 2024.

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Nissan and Honda announce merger talks amid a rapidly changing global market

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work to a merger, forming the world's third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes changes in its move from fossil fuels.

December 23, 2024
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