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  • Energy

Facing an energy crisis, Germans stock up on candles

Germans are on a mission to transform their energy economy and reduce their consumption, including by — apparently — using lots of candles.

December 20, 2022
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  • Willa Rubin
Irmgard Furchner sits in the courtroom at the beginning of the trial day in Itzehoe, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.

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  • Europe

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder as a secretary to the commander of a World War II concentration camp. She was given a 2-year suspended sentence.

December 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte talks to invited guests after apologizing on behalf of his government for the Netherlands' historical role in slavery and the slave trade at the National Archives in The Hague, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022.

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  • World

Dutch leader apologizes for the Netherlands' role in slave trade

Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology comes as many nations' colonial histories have received scrutiny because of the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killing of George Floyd in the U.S.

December 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
British Airways planes parked at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 in London, March 18, 2020.

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  • National

Several British Airways flights out of the U.S. are delayed due to technical issues

The British airline said U.S.-based flight delays are being caused by a technical issue. Delays on some flights were nearly 24 hours.

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
British nurses picket outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London on Thursday. The nurses' union is asking for a 19% pay raise. Nurses, as well as postal workers, rail workers and some airport immigration officers, are staging walkouts over the holiday season. They are asking for pay increases as the U.K. faces nearly 11% inflation.

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  • World

Britain is seeing a wave of strikes as nurses, postal workers and others walk out

Nurses, postal workers and railway employees are all walking out this month in the U.K.'s largest series of labor actions in more than a decade. It's a major challenge to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
People shop in a mall decorated with winter and Christmas decorations in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: Russia's invasion marks 10 months on Christmas Eve

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

December 19, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A pilot gestures from the grounded EC-LZO Boeing 767 flight, initially meant to deport Rwandan asylum-seekers, at Boscombe Down Air Base in Boscombe Down, England, on June 14. The flight taking asylum-seekers from the U.K. to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute, after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights.

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  • World

U.K. top court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda

The ruling comes months after the government introduced a plan to deport hundreds of potential asylum-seekers to Rwanda. Immigration lawyers and human rights groups have warned of rights violations.

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen smiles at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.

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  • Europe

EU leaders have agreed on a new plan to source power that isn't from Russia

European leaders have finalized an agreement for an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the EU amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine.

December 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Pope Francis looks at the Christmas tree inside the Paul VI hall as he arrives to meet with faithful during an audience granted to the donors of the Christmas tree and Nativity scene at the Vatican, on Dec. 3, 2022. Pope Francis has revealed in an interview that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out duties.

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  • Religion

The Pope has revealed he has a resignation note to use if his health impedes his work

Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from doing his duties.

December 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A dead fish is seen among debris in front of the Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin, where a huge aquarium located in the hotel's lobby burst on Friday. Berlin police said on Twitter that as well as causing "incredible maritime damage", the incident left two people with injuries from glass shards.

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  • Europe

A massive aquarium holding 1,500 tropical fish bursts in Berlin

The catastrophic rupture sent 1 million liters of salt water — and fish — pouring into the street. Berlin Police say two people were hurt, the result of glass shards from the aquarium's collapse.

December 16, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
Ukraine last month marked the 90th anniversary of a 1932-33 famine that the country blames on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In this photo, visitors to the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Kyiv look though a book with some of the names of the 4 million or more Ukrainians who died in the famine. In the background is a photo of one of the victims of that period.

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  • Europe

A century and counting: Ukraine's ongoing fight to free itself from Russia

This month marks 100 years since Ukraine joined the Soviet Union. It did so after Ukraine lost in a bid for independence. Ukraine once again finds itself in another life-and-death battle with Moscow.

December 16, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Civilians sit on an escalator while taking shelter inside a metro station during an air raid alert in the center of Kyiv on Dec. 16, 2022. A fresh barrage of Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine early on Friday.

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  • Europe

Russia launches new wave of air attacks across Ukraine

Regional military administrators across the country say Russia launched at least 70 missiles targeting at least 10 of Ukraine's 24 regions.

December 16, 2022
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By:
  • Julian Hayda and
  • Tim Mak
Olga and Nikolay Grinik with their son, Kirill (left), and daughter, Miroslava (right), in Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, in July 2018. The family lived about 50 yards away from a Ukrainian front-line military position in old Avdiivka. They owned the only horse in town, Lastochka (Swallow), and made extra money giving cart rides to children in downtown Avdiivka.

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  • World

The Ukraine war isn't new. These intimate photos show 3 families enduring it for years

A photographer and writer follow Ukrainian families whose lives have been upended by conflict since 2014. Their stories show an enduring will to live, even as war rages on around them.

December 16, 2022
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  • Anastasia Taylor-Lind and
  • Alisa Sopova
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  • Europe

Explosions rock Kyiv in pre-dawn air attack

Ukraine says it shot down at least 10 incoming Russian drones aimed at the capital and the surrounding region. Initial reports suggested the damage was limited.

December 14, 2022
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  • Greg Myre
People look at flowers placed on the Promenade des Anglais at the scene of a truck attack on July 18, 2016, in Nice, southern France. A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with the Bastille Day attack that killed 86 people.

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  • Europe

8 in France are convicted of their roles in a Bastille Day truck attack that killed 86

A French court convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.

December 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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