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News Articles: World

A new report focuses on Wagner's operations in Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic.

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  • World

How 'blood gold' from Africa is funding Russia's war on Ukraine

According to a new report, the Wagner Group has laundered some $2.5 billion to Russia since its full scale invasion of Ukraine last year, in an effort to support the war effort.

December 27, 2023
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Emma Klein,
  • and 1 more
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  • Politics

The world crises Secretary Blinken has been looking at this year

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. support for Israel has not left it isolated — despite anger over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. That's just one of the world crises he's looking at.

December 26, 2023
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined.

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  • News

Up First briefing: U.S. conducts airstrikes on militants in Iraq; 2023 U.S. union wins

President Biden orders retaliatory strikes against militants in Iraq after three U.S. servicemembers were injured. A look at the state of U.S. unions after several big 2023 wins.

December 26, 2023
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By:
  • Suzanne Nuyen
President Biden answers a reporter's question as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Dec. 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Middle East

Biden orders strike on Iranian-aligned group after 3 U.S. troops injured in Iraq

President Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.

December 26, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Indian passengers who travelled in an unmarked Legend Airlines A340 from Vatry Airport in France, arrive at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023.

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  • World

276 Indians stuck in a French airport for a human trafficking probe arrive in India

A charter plane that was grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation arrived in India with 276 Indians aboard early Tuesday.

December 26, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A Ukrainian serviceman holds his daughter as they take part in Christmas celebrations in the village of Pyrogove, near Kyiv on Monday.

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  • World

Breaking with tradition, Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 this year

In a stark rebuke of Russia, Ukraine joins the West in celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 instead of Jan. 6-7 as it traditionally has done.

December 25, 2023
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Hiba Ahmad
Men recover the body of a Palestinian killed in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli strike at al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on Monday, as the war between Israel and Hamas carries on.

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  • Middle East

Egyptian officials tout a preliminary plan to end the Israel-Hamas war

The tentative plan includes a possible cease-fire, release of Israeli hostages and Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, and a new Palestinian leadership that spans Gaza and West Bank territories.

December 25, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Hiba Ahmad
GPB  NPR

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  • Middle East

An Israeli airstrike in Syria kills a high-ranking Iranian general

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, comes as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel intensify.

December 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in Moscow on Feb. 29, 2020. Associates say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

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  • World

Missing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is located in an Arctic penal colony

Associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

December 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Pope Francis presides over Christmas eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Sunday.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis mourns the rejection of peace and 'futile logic of war' this Christmas

In his Christmas Mass address Sunday, he said the word of God is being drowned out by the violence in Gaza. Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire multiple times since the war started on Oct. 7.

December 25, 2023
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Khan Younis on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

At least 68 killed in central Gaza in airstrike, adding to weekend's bloodshed

At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza, health officials said Sunday, while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 17.

December 25, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Gendarmes patrol by the plane grounded by police based that it could be carrying trafficking victims, at the Vary airport , Monday, Dec. 25, 2023 in Vatry, eastern France.

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  • World

A plane stuck for days in France for a human trafficking investigation is leaving

A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation is scheduled to leave Monday for India, after an exceptional holiday ordeal at a rural French airport for four days.

December 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Arfat Ahmed, age 10, photographed on Nov. 8, 2022 as he returns to his family's dwelling with gourd leaves to cook for dinner. This is one of the photos by the four Rohingya photographers honored for drawing attention to the plight of what the U.N. has called the "world's most persecuted minority."

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  • Global Health

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya people have languished in camps in Bangladesh. Four young Rohingya are being honored by the U.N. refugee agency for documenting their life in vivid photos.

December 24, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
Volunteers work at a dairy farm near Nir Oz, one of the communities attacked on Oct. 7 by Hamas militants, in southern Israel on Wednesday. People from Israel and around the world have been rotating in to volunteer at the farm, helping fill the gap left by the workers who are no longer here.

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  • Middle East

The Hamas attack left many Israeli farms abandoned — some worry forever

In some of the farm communities hardest hit during the Oct. 7 attack, volunteers from Israel and around the world are arriving to fill the gap left by workers who are no longer there.

December 24, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Khan Younis on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.

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  • Middle East

A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers, in sign of Hamas' entrenchment

Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, a sign that Hamas is still putting up a fight despite weeks of brutal war.

December 24, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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