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US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, second right, as a video plays during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

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  • Africa

Trump's debunked 'burial site' video reopens 'wounds,' says victim's son

Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.

May 24, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
President Trump takes questions from reporters in the Oval Office on May 23, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump threatens steep tariffs on trade with the European Union -- and on iPhones

President Trump told reporters he is ready to slap 50% tariffs on European Union products starting June 1 — and 25% tariffs on iPhones by the end of June.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Two-hundred and seventy Ukrainian military personnel and 120 civilians are returned to Ukraine after the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday that Moscow and Kyiv had exchanged that amount of prisoners each in the first round of a large-scale swap on Friday.

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  • Europe

Ukraine and Russia begin the largest prisoner-of-war exchange since the invasion

Ukraine and Russia have begun the exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war, the largest such swap since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Polina Lytvynova
Kim Kardashian leaves the justice palace after testifying, regarding a robbery of millions of dollars in jewels from her Paris hotel room in 2016, in Paris, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

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  • Europe

Kim Kardashian robbery trial: verdict expected in Paris

A verdict is expected in the Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016. French media nicknamed them "the Grandpa Robbers" — most were in their 60s when the heist took place.

May 23, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Handwritten notes are left at the site of the recent shooting outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C..

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  • News

Harvard's ability to enroll international students revoked. And, summer book releases

The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students. And, 17 books releasing this summer that NPR critics are excited about.

May 23, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
In this photo provided by the New South Wales Police, emergency workers wade through floodwaters as they prepare inflatable boats to effect rescues near Taree, Australia, Thursday, May 22, 2025.

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  • World

Record floodwaters in eastern Australia leave 4 dead and 1 missing

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by the flooding in New South Wales, after days of heavy rain. Four bodies have been retrieved from floodwaters since Wednesday.

May 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Members of Yale crew, left, and Harvard crew, right, greet one another after the 4-mile course along the Thames River for the 146th Harvard-Yale Regatta, in New London, Conn., on May 28, 2011.

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  • Sports

Trump's Harvard visa threat could wipe out several of the school's sports teams

Some of Harvard's sports teams could be wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the school with the nation's largest athletic program ineligible for international student visas.

May 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A sign outside of the Voice of America headquarters in Washington, DC, US, in March, shortly after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the scope of eight federal agencies as part of his campaign to downsize the US government, including the US Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America.

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  • Media

Voice of America's prospects appear grim after appeals court order

A federal appeals court said it would not intervene — at least for now — to thwart the Trump administration's plans for the near-total dismantlement of Voice of America.

May 22, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
This image released by the U.S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean.

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  • Europe

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

May 22, 2025
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
President Trump meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday.

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  • Africa

South Africa's president is praised for staying calm during Trump's Oval Office ambush

South Africans credit President Cyril Ramaphosa for keeping his cool as President Trump made a choreographed presentation accusing the country of murdering white farmers.

May 22, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Women walk past a damaged house in Bandipora, India, on April 27. Following the April 22 attack that killed at least 26 people, India ordered Pakistani nationals to leave the country and Indian security forces demolished houses linked to active militants across Kashmir, according to officials.

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  • World

A family in Indian-administered Kashmir fears being split apart after militant attack

The husband is from India. The wife is from Pakistan. Their son is Indian and daughters are Pakistani. India blames Pakistan for an April militant attack in Kashmir and ordered Pakistanis to leave.

May 22, 2025
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  • Bilal Kuchay and
  • Omkar Khandekar
Norway's chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen gestures during a game in the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata on Nov. 17, 2024.

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  • Series: Join The Game

Team World manages a draw in marathon chess showdown against grandmaster Magnus Carlsen

Carlsen squared off against 143,000 players from around the world — but the chess grandmaster was unable to clinch a victory over Team World.

May 22, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name "Jesus" at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025.

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  • News

Two Israeli embassy aides killed. And, House passes Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead last night outside of a Jewish museum. And, House Republicans passed President Trump's bill.

May 22, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas attends the EU-Ukraine Association Council at the European Council building in Brussels  April 9, 2025.

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  • World

Trump tried to shutter Radio Free Europe. The EU threw it a lifeline

EU officials say the broadcaster for years has played an important role providing news to areas where the press can't operate freely

May 21, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sits for an interview with NPR on Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

U.S. Ambassador Huckabee is 'outraged' at European leaders for condemning Israel

In an interview with NPR, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the U.K., Canada and France were "blaming the wrong perpetrator," and that Hamas is responsible for the suffering in Gaza.

May 21, 2025
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