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A North Korean soldier looks across the Yalu river near Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong in April 2017.

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  • World

A former North Korean operative gives his first interview since defecting

Kim Hyun-woo used to work for North Korea's top intelligence agency. He defected to South Korea in 2014 and is now on his first-ever visit to the United States.

June 09, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong and
  • Mary Louise Kelly
A Venezuelan migrant watches the boat he hopes to take across the Gulf of Urabá once he gets enough money together for the trip.

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  • World

Here's one route where immigration has slowed since Biden's new U.S. border rules

A popular immigration passageway saw a drop right when the U.S. passed new rules imposing criminal prosecution and requiring proof an asylum-seeker was previously denied in another country.

June 09, 2023
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  • John Otis
The remains of the Kakhovka Dam as seen by satellite on June 7, 2023. Seismologists claim to have seen an explosive signal around the time of the dam's collapse.

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  • Europe

Seismic stations detected explosion at Ukrainian dam around the time it collapsed

A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.

June 09, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from midwife Marie-Josée Miezan. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms — and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

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  • Children's Health

Kangaroo care gets a major endorsement. Here's what it looks like in Ivory Coast

A new study looks at the reduction in mortality among vulnerable babies if kangaroo care — skin-to-skin contact — is started soon after birth.

June 08, 2023
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  • Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared as a guest at a Washington Nationals baseball game on Wednesday.

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  • World

In his 1st White House visit, Rishi Sunak talks Ukraine, AI — and how to say his name

After Boris Johnson, Brexit and political turmoil, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to convey stability in his first trip to the White House. On the agenda: Ukraine, NATO and AI.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab and
  • Lauren Frayer
Harold Varner III (left) is doused by teammate Talor Gooch after Varner won the LIV Golf Invitational - DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 28, in Sterling, Va. The upstart tour will be united along with the PGA Tour, in a blockbuster merger.

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  • Sports

'I still hate LIV': Golf's civil war is over, but how will pro golfers move on?

"I still hate LIV. Like, I hate it. I hope it goes away," Rory McIlroy, the world's no. 3 player, said of the new deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi fund behind LIV.

June 08, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A person cycles past the skyline in Philadelphia shrouded in haze on Thursday.

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  • Weather

When will air quality improve? A lot is riding on the wind

Millions of Americans are under air quality alerts as wildfires burn in Canada. Experts say the weather pattern could change by early next week, and stress the need to take precautions until then.

June 08, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Security forces gather in a playground at the scene of knife attack in Annecy, a town in the French Alps, on Thursday.

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  • Europe

4 young children are critically wounded in a knife attack in a French Alpine town

As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps. The children suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults were wounded.

June 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
He Jiankui announced nearly five years ago that he had created the first gene-edited babies.

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  • World

His baby gene editing shocked ethicists. Now he's in the lab again

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

June 08, 2023
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  • John Ruwitch
The Statue of Liberty stands shrouded in a reddish haze as a result of Canadian wildfires on Tuesday.

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  • Climate

How Canadian wildfires are worsening U.S. air quality and what you can do to cope

The National Weather Service said air quality has "plummeted" across the Northeast. A disaster preparedness expert says people should take the warnings seriously.

June 08, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Peter Møller, second from right, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, submits the documents at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 15, 2022.

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  • Asia

South Korean inquiry to look into more foreign adoptions with suspect origins

The new cases in the expanded inquiry into South Korea's foreign adoption boom involve adoptees in 11 nations including the U.S., Denmark, Norway, and Sweden who were adopted from 1960 to 1990.

June 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Argentina's Lionel Messi waves after receiving the Golden Ball award for best player at the end of the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar on  Dec. 18, 2022.

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  • Sports

Soccer shocker: Lionel Messi says he will join Miami's MLS team

After months of speculation, Messi announced his decision Wednesday to join Inter Miami, a franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon in David Beckham since its inception.

June 07, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Pope Francis went to a hospital in Rome Wednesday for abdominal surgery. He's seen here in the popemobile, leaving his general audience at St. Peter's Square in The Vatican before heading to the hospital.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis will remain in hospital after a hernia-related surgery in Rome

The pope underwent "a laparotomy and abdominal wall surgery under general anesthesia" on Wednesday, the Holy See's official news portal says. The pope had complained of abdominal pain on Tuesday.

June 07, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
The Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine suffered a catastrophic breach overnight, in what Ukrainian officials say was an attack by Russia.

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  • Europe

What we know about a large dam's catastrophic breach in Ukraine

The near obliteration of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River has triggered evacuations and raised concern about Europe's largest nuclear power plant, which uses the reservoir to cool its reactors.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
South African golfer Charl Schwartzel plays a last shot during the LIV Golf Invitational Series in St. Albans, England, in June 2022. The launch of the series rocked the world of golf by setting up rival leagues.

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  • Sports

In a stunning move, PGA Tour agrees to merge with its Saudi-backed rival, LIV Golf

The merger will end all pending litigation between the parties, mending a burgeoning split in men's professional golf that remade the game in the last year.

June 06, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
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