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News Articles: war

Volunteers unload food aid in Chena, Ethiopia, one of many parts of the world where conflict has fueled hunger.

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  • Global Health

Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to 'Black and white lives'?

That's what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization and others ask in the wake of the outpouring of money to help Ukrainian victims of the war amid record levels of global hunger.

April 18, 2022
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  • Nurith Aizenman
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

Photos: Russian air strikes hit targets in Lviv, Kharkiv and across Ukraine

Russia continues to work to get control of eastern Ukraine as the country's forces refuse to surrender.

April 18, 2022
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By:
  • Marco Storel
<strong>April 18:</strong> Ukrainians wait as Red Cross relief workers distribute food in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Photos: Russian air strikes hit targets in Lviv, Kharkiv and across Ukraine

Russia continues to work to get control of eastern Ukraine as the country's forces refuse to surrender.

April 18, 2022
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By:
  • Marco Storel
GPB News NPR

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  • Fine Art

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

April 15, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French, 1848–1934), <em>The Survivors of a Massacre Used as Gravediggers</em>, 1915. Lithograph on wove paper, image: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 in. sheet: 13 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.

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  • Fine Art

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

April 15, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
Dr. Oleksandr Ryzhenko worked as a pediatric surgeon before the war. A health department doctor observed that his hands are "capable of big miracles." Now he volunteers at City Hospital No. 2 as a trauma surgeon.

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  • Global Health

Doctors in Chernihiv bear witness to their hospital's fate after Russian shelling

It was a sunny day in mid-March. The sky was blue. It felt like spring. Then the attack began on City Hospital No. 2. Doctors tell what it was like — and what's going on now.

April 07, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
<strong>April 3:</strong> A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv.

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  • Europe

Photos: Russian attacks leave catastrophic scenes, as many flee or are displaced

Ukraine has launched an investigation into war crimes officials believe have been committed by Russian forces during the course of the invasion.

April 04, 2022
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By:
  • Marco Storel
Refugees from Ukraine, which has a high rate of tuberculosis, are often screened for the disease. Above: Dr. Natalie Wöhrle analyzes the X-ray images of the lungs from a screening in Gauting, Germany, on March 12.

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  • Global Health

Russia's war with Ukraine is devastating for Ukraine's war on TB

The country has a high rate of tuberculosis. They'd been making progress but then came the pandemic ... and now the war. Doctors worryi about increased spread of this contagious and deadly disease.

March 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Mariana Vishegirskaya stands outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9. Vishegirskaya later gave birth to a girl in another hospital in Mariupol.

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  • Global Health

Russia's strike on Ukraine maternity hospital is part of a terrible wartime tradition

The attack on the facility in Mariupol reflects an unfortunate trend in wars in Syria, Ethiopia and other countries. The impact on health care in the short-term and the long run is beyond devastating.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Diane Cole
Aleksandra Shchebet

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  • Global Health

The humble bravery of a young neurologist from Kyiv

Aleksandra Shchebet fled Kyiv when the bombing began, found refuge in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk — and decided to stay and help her country in any way she could.

March 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
GPB News NPR

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  • World

The mayor of Melitopol, Ukraine, has been abducted, officials say

Mayor Ivan Fedorov was abducted on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials. He was reportedly seized by approximately 10 people while in the city center, and they put a plastic bag over his head.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Fernando Alfonso III
Zalmai Yawar is a Ph.D. candidate in geology at Indiana University. He was Scott Simon's translator during a reporting trip in Afghanistan in 2002.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Numb From Afghanistan's Losses

Host Scott Simon shares the reaction of Zalmai Yawar, an Afghan who first served as a translator for NPR 20 years ago, to the country's return to Taliban control. Yawar now lives in the U.S.

August 21, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Simon
U.S. soldiers stand guard along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul Aug. 16, 2021.

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  • Movies

Our Film Critic Explores Why The Harrowing Afghanistan Images May Feel Familiar

Bob Mondello reflects on the portrayal and the despair of Afghanistan's story, as shown on film for decades — in The Man Who Would Be King, Rambo III, Charlie Wilson's War, Zero Dark Thirty and more.

August 19, 2021
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
President Biden departs after speaking from the White House Treaty Room on April 14 to announce the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

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  • Analysis

Biden's Choices In Afghanistan Were Complicated. So Is The Fallout He Faces

The simple question of whether the U.S. should stay or go was not simple at all. Now Biden's determination to leave Afghanistan has resulted in a bigger mess than he bargained for.

August 16, 2021
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Georgia National Guard Lieutenant Jonathan Kareis is among the guard members who will soon deploy to Afghanistan.

Georgia National Guard Soldiers Deploy To Train Afghan Military

When members of the Georgia National Guard’s 48 th Brigade deploy to Afghanistan after Christmas, it will be the first deployment for many. It will also...

November 26, 2018
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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