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A police officer stands at the entrance of the office building where Indian tax authorities raided BBC's office in New Delhi on Tuesday.

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  • World

Indian tax authorities raid the BBC weeks after it aired critical Modi documentary

A two-part BBC documentary examined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in anti-Muslim raids that killed hundreds in his home state of Gujarat in 2002.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Raksha Kumar
A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Feb. 1.

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  • World

How a Chinese 'spy balloon' prompted the U.S. to scour the skies

The U.S. and China have traded fiery allegations of extensive aerial surveillance programs since the U.S. shot down a Chinese balloon on Feb. 4. Here's a look at what's happened so far.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Lexie Schapitl
A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Aqraba shows the Israeli settlement outpost of Gevat Arnon, near Nablus city in the southern occupied West Bank.

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  • Middle East

European allies condemn Israel's plan to build more housing units in the West Bank

France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom joined the U.S. in condemning Israel's plans to build 10,000 more housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
The new Airbus A320neo takes off for its first test flight at Toulouse-Blagnac airport in southwestern France on Sept. 25, 2014. The owner of Air India announced a deal Tuesday to buy 250 Airbus jets, including A350 wide-body planes and A320neo single-aisle planes in a deal worth billions of dollars.

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  • Business

As its ambitions soar, Air India orders 470 Boeing and Airbus aircraft

India's second-largest domestic carrier placed orders for 220 Boeing aircraft valued at $34 billion and 250 Airbus planes in a separate deal that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Peter Pan, a dog that is part of a USAID rescue crew in Turkey, scrambles over piles of debris, sniffing for the scent of any survivors stuck inside.

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  • Global Health

Sniffer dogs offer hope in waning rescue efforts in Turkey

Days after the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, hopes of finding people alive is waning. One U.S.-based team uses search-and-rescue dogs to try to find people still trapped days after the quake.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien and
  • Samantha Balaban
People listen to a speaker during a demonstration to denounce the Iranian government and express support with anti-government protesters in Iran, in Washington, DC.

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  • Middle East

Despite Khamenei's amnesty, most protesters in Iran won't go free, advocate says

Iran has jailed up to 20,000 people in months of protests against the regime. The announcement that it's pardoning prisoners is an empty gesture, a human rights lawyer says.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • John Helton
Medine Sonmez (right) has been emotional in the days since the earthquake. "I am gone," she says. "My body is here but I am gone."

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  • World

After Turkey's quake, one family mourns its losses — and braces for more

As volunteers continue digging through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, the siblings of a woman found dead with her four children are now awaiting news of their mother and another sister.

February 14, 2023
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By:
  • Erin O'Brien and
  • Ruth Sherlock
Sailors recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon in the waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Feb. 5, after a fighter jet shot the balloon out of the sky.

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  • National Security

UFOs? Airborne objects? What we know about 4 recent shootdowns

The shootdowns came in steady succession over the weekend, after alarms were raised in early February over an object spotted over Montana.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Authorities arrive at the Voice of Democracy office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday, Feb. 13.

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  • World

Cambodia's Hun Sen shutters independent radio station Voice of Democracy

The closure of radio station Voice of Democracy, one the country's last-remaining independent news outlets, comes months ahead of Cambodia's national elections amid a broader press crackdown.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits the city center destroyed by last the Feb. 6 earthquake in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Feb. 8.

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  • World

Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Kenyon
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin speaks at a press conference in Beijing on Jan. 11, 2023.

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  • World

China accuses U.S. of flying spy balloons into Chinese airspace more than 10 times

The accusations made by China on Monday have further ratcheted up tensions between the two countries amid mutual allegations of surveillance.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

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  • World

The U.S. is urging Americans to leave Russia 'immediately' due to security risks

The embassy in Moscow warned of the "unpredictable consequences" of the war in Ukraine, and said dual U.S.-Russian citizens in particular risked being forcibly conscripted into Russia's armed forces.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) walks with French President Emmanuel Macron on the tarmac of Vélizy-Villacoublay airbase as they prepare to board a flight together, en route to Brussels for a summit at European Parliament, on Feb. 9. Zelenskyy made a surprise Europe tour last week.

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  • World

Latest in Ukraine: Updates on Russia's war and a look ahead (Feb. 13)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Women sit in front of the rubble of an area destroyed during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Rescuers keep digging for survivors a week after the Turkey-Syria earthquake

People buried under rubble in southern Turkey continue to defy the odds, surviving freezing weather and a week without water. A 40-year-old woman was pulled alive in Gaziantep province early Monday.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Kenyon
This photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard shows a Chinese coast guard ship in the disputed South China Sea, Feb. 6, 2023.

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  • Asia

The Philippines accuses a Chinese ship of aiming a laser at a Filipino boat crew

The Philippines has accused a Chinese coast guard ship of hitting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the disputed South China Sea.

February 13, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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