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News Articles: World

Science educator Bill Nye looks at the "Doomsday Clock," shortly before the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces the latest decision on the "Doomsday Clock" minute hand, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at the National Press Club Broadcast Center, in Washington.

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'Doomsday Clock' signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI

Earth, for the second year running, is nearing apocalypse, a science-oriented advocacy group said, pointing to its famous "Doomsday Clock" that shows 90 seconds till midnight.

January 24, 2024
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Family and friends of Israeli reservist Hadar Kapeluk, who was killed in combat in Gaza, mourn at his grave during his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Israel says 24 soldiers were killed on its deadliest single day during war in Gaza

Israel said 21 soldiers died when two buildings exploded and collapsed; three more died fighting in southern Gaza. Israel says it's investigating the incident, which Hamas claims responsibility for.

January 23, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Workers prepare Benito the giraffe for transport at the city-run Central Park Zoo in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday. After a campaign by environmentalists, Benito left Mexico's northern border and its extreme weather conditions Sunday night and headed for a conservation park in central Mexico.

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  • Animals

Giraffe Benito has a new home in Mexico. Now comes the hard part — fitting in

The 4-year-old giraffe arrived Tuesday at his new home in a large animal park in central Mexico. He was transferred following pressure from animal advocates, and after he spent the last year alone.

January 23, 2024
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People shout slogans during a protest against Sweden's NATO membership called by Turkish Vatan, or Patriotic Party, in Istanbul on Tuesday.

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  • World

Turkey's parliament votes to let Sweden join NATO

Turkish legislators endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance.

January 23, 2024
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'Forgottenness' wrestles with the meaning of Ukrainian identity — and time

In writer Tanja Maljartschuk's novel, the narrator's malaise and weakening attachment to time serve as a metaphor for today's Ukraine, as well as for other struggling democracies, including our own.

January 23, 2024
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  • Martha Anne Toll
A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment on January 19, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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  • Middle East

Dozens of people killed as Israel intensifies offensive in southern Gaza's Khan Younis

The Israeli military says it has encircled Gaza's second largest city, where fierce battles with Hamas continue. Dozens of people have been killed and thousands have fled further south.

January 23, 2024
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  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
The Hand in Hand Jerusalem school principal Efrat Meyer, who is Jewish, and vice principal Engie Wattad, who is Arab Muslim, are longtime colleagues and friends. The school is mixed and bilingual.

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  • World

A school in Jerusalem brings Arab and Jewish kids together to boost understanding

Jewish and Arab children learn alongside each other at the Hand in Hand school. They're taught in Hebrew and Arabic, in a program unusual in Israel for integrating students of different backgrounds.

January 23, 2024
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
People react at the site of a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.

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  • Europe

Russian missiles target Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, killing at least 6

Russian missiles targeted Ukraine's two biggest cities on Tuesday morning, damaging apartment buildings and killing at least six people.

January 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during flight operations in the Red Sea on Monday.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. and U.K. bomb more Houthi sites in Yemen

The U.S. and U.K. said they used warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to take out Houthi missile storage sites, drones and launchers.

January 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A general view of the area as Palestinians, who left their homes to survive due to Israeli attacks, took shelter in a U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Rafah on Jan. 16.

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  • Middle East

Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000

Photos from Israel and Gaza show some of what the past week has looked like for people on the ground there as the conflict enters its fourth month.

January 22, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs rituals during the opening of a temple dedicated to Hinduism's Lord Ram in Ayodhya, India, Monday.

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  • World

India's Modi inaugurates a long-promised but controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya

The temple inauguration marks the culmination of a decades-long dispute over a site Hindus believe is the birthplace of the god Ram. Critics call the temple a monument to India's eroding secularism.

January 22, 2024
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  • Omkar Khandekar
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shut down its moon lander days after its historic arrival due to power concerns. Here, JAXA's leaders brief the media about the successful moon mission, and a problem with the lander's solar cell Friday.

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  • Space

Japan shuts down its SLIM moon lander in hopes it will restart someday

The lander was powered down at 12% battery power — saving enough juice for a potential restart. Now Japan's space agency will see if its solar cell can give the lander any electricity.

January 22, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
GPB  NPR

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  • Global Health

Experts predict the global buzzwords that will shape the year ahead

2024 will be awash in new (and sometimes familiar) buzzwords that point up the polycrises (another buzzword) around the planet. Here's a guide for the perplexed.

January 22, 2024
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  • Andrew Connelly
In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, rescue workers search through rubbles in the aftermath of a landslide in liangshui village in southwestern China's Yunnan Province on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.

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  • Asia

Landslide in mountainous southwestern China buries dozens of people

The disaster struck in the early morning in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province. Rescue efforts were underway to find victims buried in houses, officials said.

January 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Europe

Sarah, the Duchess of York, diagnosed with skin cancer

The melanoma was found after several moles were removed while she was undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. Doctors are analyzing it to see if it was caught early.

January 21, 2024
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