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WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, sits inside a defendants' cage after the court's verdict during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on Aug. 4, 2022.

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  • World

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony

Griner has been moved from a detention center outside of Moscow and is being sent to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug smuggling charges, her lawyers said.

November 09, 2022
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  • Charles Maynes
Women manufacture clothes in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Aug. 29. The ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh is now a mainstay of the country's economy. Today, Bangladesh is one of the world's largest garment exporters, with the sector accounting for more than 80% percent of Bangladesh's exports.

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  • World

How Bangladesh went from an economic miracle to needing IMF help

Millions emerged from poverty in recent decades. But now, rising fuel prices, weak exports and scant remittances are sabotaging growth, and Bangladesh asked the IMF for $4.5 billion in loans.

November 09, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
At this year's U.N. climate conference, a major focus is boosting investment in developing countries. Experts say renewable energy projects like this wind farm in South Africa can be attractive to private investors.

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  • Climate

Investors have trillions to fight climate change. Developing nations get little of it

Private investment is crucial to addressing climate change. But a big barrier to private investment in developing countries is the perception that risks are higher than in industrialized nations.

November 09, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Sandbags are distributed at Mills Pond Park in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday ahead of subtropical storm Nicole.

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  • Weather

Tropical Storm Nicole churns toward the Bahamas and Florida

The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane. It's headed for parts of the Bahamas and Florida that are still feeling the effects of previous hurricanes.

November 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The NPR team doing interviews in Senegal.

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  • World

Travel diary: Tracking climate, migration and the far-right from Africa to Europe

Welcome to the travel blog for the NPR project that examined how the ripples of climate change radiate outward.

November 08, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 2 more
A total lunar eclipse graces the night skies during the first blood moon of the year, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 15, 2022.

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  • Space

A total lunar eclipse happened Tuesday — and it won't happen again for 3 years

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the moon fell completely into Earth's shadow and turned a shade of red — either an astronomical delight or Election Day omen, depending on who you ask.

November 08, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup at a ceremony in December 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.

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  • Sports

FIFA's former leader says making Qatar a World Cup host was a mistake

Blatter, who has long said he voted for the United States, made the admission in his first major interview since being acquitted in July of financial misconduct at FIFA.

November 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Movies

South Korea's official entry to the Oscars is a murder-mystery-romance

South Korea's official entry at the Oscars this year is a murder-mystery-romance blend. Like 2019's Parasite, it shows how Korean directors are making their mark across the spectrum of film genres.

November 07, 2022
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  • Anthony Kuhn
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Prigozhin, an entrepreneur known as "Putin's chef" because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, has admitted he interfered in U.S. elections and says he will continue to do so.

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  • Elections

A Russian businessman linked to Putin admits to U.S. election meddling

Entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so — confirming for the first time the accusations that he has rejected for years.

November 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • World

As Netanyahu forms Israeli government, U.S. may boycott one of his far-right allies

As the former Israeli prime minister returns to power, he's expected to give a post to a politician once convicted of inciting racism — whom the Biden administration might choose not to engage with.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a howitzer at a position on the front line near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Oct. 31.

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  • World

Ukraine updates: Iran admits sending Russia drones as electricity knocked out (Nov. 7)

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

November 07, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A Ukranian woman sits in a car with her family in Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, after they fled from the Russian-occupied territory of Kherson.

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  • Europe

In southern Ukraine, Kherson residents live in fear — and hope — as battle looms

Those who've left Kherson and others who still have loved ones there describe a community in fear of the Russian occupiers — and hopeful that increased shelling means the Ukrainians are coming.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Heavy rain caused floods in northeastern Thailand in October 2022. Millions of people around the world would benefit from more timely and accurate warnings about climate-driven extreme weather such as floods and heat waves. A new United Nations initiative plans to spend $3.1 billion on such early warning systems.

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  • Climate

U.N. plan would help warn people in vulnerable countries about climate threats

About half the world isn't covered by early warning systems that send alerts for weather emergencies. The worst is in developing countries, which have been hit hardest by global warming.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley and
  • Rebecca Hersher
A Chadian poses for a photograph at the entrance of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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  • Climate

The U.N. chief tells the climate summit: Cooperate or perish

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

November 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Crates are brought out of King Tut's tomb in 1923, shortly after its discovery.

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  • History

100 years after unearthing King Tut's tomb, archaeologists make new discoveries

Uncovered coffins, papyrus documents and other artifacts have recently been found at the Saqqara site in Giza, Egypt. It coincides with a new accusation that jewelry was stolen from the site.

November 07, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
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