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Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial, at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin in May.

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Israel says that DOJ is investigating journalist Shireen Abu Akleh's killing

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz made the statement on Twitter, saying Israel has made it clear to the U.S. "that we won't cooperate with any external investigation."

November 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Yaram Fall makes tea in her home in Guet N'dar, Senegal on October 6. She is the head of an economic interest group for women who preserve fish. She represents hundreds of Senegalese women who do her kind of work, and she discourages youth from taking the boat to Europe clandestinely.

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  • World

'Stay here, work here, succeed here': Why this Senegalese woman is against migration

Yaram Fall is staunchly against people leaving Africa to build their lives elsewhere. "The development of Africa comes from its own people," she says.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 3 more
Pape Dieye in Guet N'dar, Senegal on October 7.

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  • World

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. He keeps refusing

Years of captaining a boat have shaped Pape Dieye's calm and reassuring presence in Senegal. These qualities have also caught the eye of people hoping to make the dangerous journey to Europe.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 3 more
Mamadou Thiam in Saint-Louis, Senegal on October 5.

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  • Climate

Saint-Louis is being swallowed by the sea. Residents are bracing for a new reality

The problem is as simple as it is devastating: the Atlantic Ocean is expanding into Senegal, and Saint-Louis is ground zero. Every year, the island loses a little bit of land to the sea.

November 14, 2022
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  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 3 more
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali on Monday.

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  • World

4 takeaways from President Biden's 'very blunt' meeting with China's Xi Jinping

The three-hour meeting between Xi and President Biden finished Monday with both leaders expressing an openness to restoring communication channels and repairing the U.S.-China relationship.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Vincent Ni
A man hugs a Ukrainian soldier as local residents gather to celebrate the liberation of Kherson on Sunday.

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Latest on Ukraine: Russia's retreat from Kherson gives Ukraine renewed hope (Nov. 14)

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

November 14, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as they begin talks in Bali.

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  • Asia

Biden and China's Xi met for three hours. Here's what they talked about

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a high-stakes face-to-face meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

November 14, 2022
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  • Emily Feng,
  • John Ruwitch,
  • and 1 more
On Monday, people lay flowers to pay tribute to the victims of a Sunday's blast that took place on Istanbul's famous Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey.

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  • World

Turkey blames Kurdish group for Istanbul bombing

Turkish authorities blamed a Kurdish group active in Syria. Turkey views the group as the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party, which it has been battling for decades.

November 14, 2022
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  • Peter Kenyon
Mamadou Niang at his home in Gandiol, Senegal, on Oct. 6. Mamadou's father worked their family farmland until he died in 2006, and Mamadou would have liked to follow in his footsteps. But he can't, he says, because rising seas are pushing salt water into the fields.

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  • World

He has attempted the journey to Europe three times, and refuses to give up

Mamadou Niang has decided he has no choice but to leave his native Senegal. Salinization has made it impossible to farm his family's land.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 2 more
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, surrounded by his guards, walks on central square during his visit to Kherson on Monday.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy makes surprise visit to liberated city of Kherson

The Ukrainian president appears openly in front of the main government building in the southern city, and speaks to cheering residents who endured eight months of Russian occupation.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Myre and
  • Jason Beaubien
Col. Roman Kostenko liberated his home village in Kherson last week. Russian troops occupied his childhood home for months. They took his body armor and medals and left a grenade and a vulgar message on an outside wall.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian soldiers who helped liberate Kherson describe relief, joy and apprehension

Many soldiers from the southern port city of Kherson spent months trying to liberate their homes. The Russian retreat last week was a major blow to Moscow's war effort.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is a founding member of the nonprofit that made a tool to track big polluters.

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  • Climate

Al Gore helped launch a global emissions tracker that keeps big polluters honest

The online tool tracks power plants, oil refineries, large ships and other sources of greenhouse gases. Gore plans to expand the tracker to observe every major source of emissions.

November 14, 2022
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  • Juliana Kim
Emergency personnel investigate the scene of Sunday's deadly explosion that occurred on Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, a busy pedestrian thoroughfare.

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  • World

Turkey calls the blast in Istanbul an attack. At least 6 are dead

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast on Istiklal Avenue. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that the nation will not bow to terrorism.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Kenyon and
  • Fatma Tanis
Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula, left, and Head of the Tigray Forces Lt. Gen. Tadesse Werede, right, exchange signed copies of an agreement, at Ethiopian peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday.

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  • Africa

Military leaders from Ethiopia and the Tigray region have agreed on a peace roadmap

Both parties have agreed to protect civilians and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the region of more than 5 million people, according to a copy of the agreement seen by the AP.

November 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
After Jina Amini died while in custody of Iran's morality police, rappers and rap music have been a vocal presence in the deadly protests taking place in the country.

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  • Middle East

In Iran, political dissenters find expression through rap music

NPR's Scott Simon speak to Nahid Siamdoust, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, about the role of rap in protests and political dissent in Iran.

November 12, 2022
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  • Scott Simon,
  • Michael Radcliffe,
  • and 1 more
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