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Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Jan. 14, 2023.

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  • World

The death toll from a Russian strike on an apartment complex in Ukraine is now 29

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that at least 73 people were wounded and 39 people had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon after the attack in the southeastern city of Dnipro.

January 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Locals watch the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan.15, 2023. A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reports. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members.

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  • Asia

A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing dozens

Rescuers are scouring the crash site for survivors, and Nepal has declared Monday a day of national mourning.

January 15, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Locals watch the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan.15, 2023. A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reports. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members.

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  • Asia

A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 32

A plane carrying 72 people crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.

January 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Israelis protest against the government's plans to overhaul the country's legal system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. The new government unveiled its plan this month proposing changes that critics say will weaken the country's judiciary and imperil its democratic system of checks and balances.

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  • Middle East

Thousands of Israelis have attended a protest against the Netanyahu government

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

January 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by the Dnipro Regional Administration, smoke rises after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

The U.K. pledges tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles target multiple cities

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also promised to provide artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities.

January 15, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by KhabarOnline News Agency on Sept. 18, 2019, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in an interview in Iran.

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  • Middle East

Iran has executed an Iranian-British dual national over spying claim

Ali Reza Akbar, who once worked for Iran's defense ministry, was executed despite international outcry over his death sentence and those of others held amid protests.

January 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In a move that experts say is a key shift for Russia, the Kremlin has named General Valery Gerasimov as the new overall commander of the war in Ukraine.

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  • Europe

What Putin's shake-up of top commanders could mean for the war in the Ukraine

Jealousy. Power struggles. Political infighting. This week's shake-up of Putin's top commanders in charge of Russia's invasion in Ukraine have it all, according to some security experts.

January 14, 2023
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, looks on after speaking from his official residence at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 1, 2022.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

January 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • World

Russia names a new commander for its war in Ukraine

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, about what's behind a significant change of command for Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.

January 13, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
Warren "Butch" Marion and Rory McCarty.

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  • National

A Maryland TikToker raised more than $140K for an 82-year-old Walmart worker

Rory McCarty used his TikTok community to raise almost $150,000 for 82-year-old Warren "Butch" Marion. Strangers just a month ago, the two have become close friends.

January 13, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Russia is touting a rare military victory, but Ukraine disputes that claim

Control of Soledar could allow Russia to cut off Ukrainian supply lines to nearby Bakhmut, another fiercely contested city seen as central to Russia's struggling efforts to control eastern Ukraine.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny and
  • Charles Maynes
The time-tracking software TimeCamp is able to monitor what files are accessed, and for how long, and whether other non-work activities, such as streaming services, are used on a laptop.

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  • Business

A woman is ordered to repay $2,000 after her employer used software to track her time

The remote employee had charged her company for 50 hours that were not associated with her job, a Canadian court found. The company used time-tracking software installed on her laptop.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) sits next to Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri during a weekly cabinet meeting on Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Journalist says Netanyahu's new government is a 'threat to Israeli democracy'

Journalist Anshel Pfeffer says the Israeli prime minister has a "strange detachment" when it comes to social issues — which opens the door for conservative members of his coalition to make changes.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - pictured here at a reception of the American Academy in Berlin - has called for "urgency" in sending weapons and financial aid to Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Condoleezza Rice calls for 'urgency' in sending weapons and money to Ukraine

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thinks the way forward for the war in Ukraine is: more. More weapons and more money to Ukraine's forces trying to kick Russia out of their country.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Mallory Yu
The Brownies branch of the Girl Guides of Canada will now be known as Embers, which will use this crest, pictured Jan. 9.

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  • Race

Girl Guides of Canada renames its Brownies after members share experiences of racism

The new name, Embers, was approved overwhelmingly by members and is meant to be more inclusive. Past and present Girl Guides said the old name caused harm and even prevented or delayed their joining.

January 12, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
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