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News Articles: Europe

Firefighters work at the scene after a warplane crashed into a residential area in Yeysk, Russia, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

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  • Europe

A Russian warplane crashes near an apartment building and kills at least 13

A Russian warplane crashed Monday into a residential area in a Russian city on the Sea of Azov, leaving at least 13 people dead.

October 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book <em>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</em> at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize.

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  • Books

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A Russian Iskander-M missile launcher parades through Red Square in central Moscow on May 7, 2022. The Iskander is one of several Russian systems that can launch nuclear weapons.

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  • National Security

Russia's nuclear arsenal is huge, but will Putin use it?

Experts in Russian doctrine worry that as the war in Ukraine gets more desperate, Russia might be tempted to detonate a nuclear weapon.

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Firefighters work after a drone fired on buildings in Kyiv on Monday.

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  • World

The capital of Ukraine reels from second Russian attack this month

At least four people were killed and at least four others have been hospitalized from the drone strike Monday morning.

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • Juliana Kim and
  • Peter DiCampo
Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday. It was the second Monday in a row of Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

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  • World

Ukraine war updates: Russia strikes Kyiv as Russian troops move into Belarus (Oct. 17)

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

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it fired on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

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  • World

Explosive suicide drones rock Ukraine's capital, hitting residential buildings

Explosions rang out across Kyiv early Monday, a week after nationwide strikes rocked the city for the first time since June.

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • Julian Hayda,
  • Franco Ordoñez,
  • and 2 more
People attend a gathering to remember Daphne Caruana Galizia, at La Valletta, in Malta. Malta is marking the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of the investigative journalist.

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  • Europe

Malta marks 5 years since the killing of a top investigative journalist

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who investigated corruption in Malta, was killed by a car bomb in 2017. Residents joined her relatives at a march and vigil. It coincides with a trial of the alleged hitmen.

October 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Investigators inspect a site after shelling near an administrative building in Donetsk, the capital of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, on Sunday.

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  • World

A rocket struck a mayor's office in Donetsk, an area controlled by separatists

Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor's office in Donetsk, a city controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

October 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People gather for a protest march against the high cost of living and climate inaction in Paris on Sunday.

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  • Europe

Thousands of French people — including a Nobel laureate — protest over inflation

The march for wage increases and other demands was organized by left-wing opponents of President Emmanuel Macron.

October 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A Ukrainian serviceman checks the trenches dug by Russian soldiers in a retaken area in the Kherson region, Ukraine, on Oct. 12, 2022.

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  • Europe

The EU is moving toward training thousands of Ukrainian soldiers on its own soil

A plan expected to be approved Monday could make training available for 12,000 Ukrainians in Poland, and another 3,000 in Germany. The move comes as Russia is mobilizing an additional 300,000 troops.

October 16, 2022
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
Activists threw soup at a Van Gogh painting in London. They were protesting new oil and gas production.

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  • Climate

Who is Just Stop Oil, the group that threw soup on Van Gogh's painting?

Just Stop Oil has been in the spotlight after its demonstration in which protesters threw soup at a Van Gogh painting. The coalition is demanding an end to new fossil fuel production in the U.K.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Halisia Hubbard
The emblem for the Russian Defense Ministry is displayed at the ministry's building in Moscow. Officials say 11 soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in a shooting at a military facility near Ukraine.

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  • World

2 attackers opened fire on volunteer troops preparing to deploy to Ukraine

The Russian Defense Ministry called the shooting a terrorist attack and said the shooters were from former Soviet republics. Eleven soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in the incident.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Katie-Jo Page sits in a room she has prepared for Mykyta, a Ukrainian boy her family was in the process of adopting, in Snohomish, Wash., on Oct 2.

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  • World

These families were adopting Ukrainian orphans. Now they have to wait out Russia's war

Ukraine was the leading country Americans adopted from, but it halted adoptions this year after Russia's invasion. Now many families and children are in limbo.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
Journalists raise their hands for questions as Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a news conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Friday. Truss let go her finance chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed course on sweeping tax cuts.

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  • Europe

The U.K. prime minister fires her finance chief and nixes tax cuts to calm markets

In a move to calm financial markets and her own Conservative Party, Prime Minister Liz Truss canceled planned tax cuts for corporations and replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as treasury head with Jeremy Hunt.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
A view of the entrance of the mine in Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, Turkey, on Friday.

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  • Europe

A coal mine explosion in Turkey has killed at least 40 people, officials say

Eleven people were injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed, officials said. The status of one remaining miner was unclear.

October 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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