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News Articles: World

Buddhist monks walk past a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Saturday.

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  • Asia

Myanmar's earthquake death toll jumps to more than 1,000 as more bodies are recovered

The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.

March 29, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Palestinians celebrate breaking the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on March 6.

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  • Middle East

What Ramadan has been like this year in Gaza, from ceasefire to war

For the first week of Ramadan, Palestinians in Gaza marked the holy month with a respite from war. Then Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas. The fighting and blockade mean there's little to celebrate.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Anas Baba
Vice President Vance (at right), seated next to second lady Usha Vance, eats at a table with service members at the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base, in Pituffik, Greenland, on March 28.

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  • Politics

Vance tells Greenlanders they'd be better off being part of the United States

Vice President Vance toured a U.S. military base in Greenland on Friday and blasted Denmark for not investing enough in the territory.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday.

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  • Middle East

Israel will 'strike anywhere in Lebanon against any threat,' Netanyahu warns

The attack came as cross-border fire has escalated between Israel and militants in Lebanon, raising doubts about the state of a shaky ceasefire.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer,
  • Alex Leff,
  • and 1 more
Rescuers work at the site of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.

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  • Asia

Earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, triggering the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with an epicenter in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.

March 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A member of the Salvadoran army stands guard on a bus with inmates at CECOT on March 16 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

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  • National

Deported over a Real Madrid tattoo? Lawyer claims his client is not a gang member

Immigration attorney Linette Tobin shares details with NPR about the government's case against her client, Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player and father of two.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Majd Al-Waheidi
Negotiators are hammering out rules to govern mining on the ocean floor, where critical metals are found in deposits called polymetallic nodules. Here, ferromanganese nodules in the North Atlantic.

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  • Climate

There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company wants to push forward anyway

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in place.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Ackerman
Palestinians receive bags of flour and other humanitarian aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Food is running out in Gaza nearly a month into Israeli blockade

The World Food Programme says it has just five days left of flour and two weeks left of other food supplies in Gaza.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy
Stanislava Lisovska, 40, (center left) stands at her husband Andrii Ruban's casket (who was killed at 41 years old) with soldiers from his unit, as they bury him in Odesa in February. Ruban a new father when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but like many in those early days, he volunteered to join the army and had been fighting ever since.

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  • World

Ukrainians in front line regions reel from losses, but say hope dies last for them

Into their fourth year of war, Ukrainians living in or near front line regions of their country grapple with their losses and contemplate an uncertain future.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Claire Harbage,
  • Catie Dull,
  • and 1 more
A musher walks with his Greenlandic sled dogs on March 8 after completing a dog sled race to determine which contestant attends the national competition in Ilulissat, Greenland.

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  • Politics

As U.S. foreign aid grants get slashed, Greenland gets money for a dog race

Second lady Usha Vance has scrapped a plan to attend Greenland's national dog sled race this week. But American tax dollars will help support the race anyway.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Michele Kelemen
Nahid Islam, a student protester who was sworn in as a minister in Bangladesh's interim government in 2024, in Dhaka.

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  • Asia

As Bangladesh gears up for election, a new political player emerges

Last year, Gen-Z uprising in Bangladesh helped bring down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Student activists continue to be central figures in shaping the future of Bangladesh's political landscape.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Shamim Chowdhury
Phan Cong Quang makes fish sauce in his home in Nam O fishing village on March 4.

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  • Asia

Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnam's tradition of making fish sauce

Climate change and overfishing are making it harder to catch the anchovies essential to the condiment that underlies so much of Vietnam and southeast Asia's food.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is pictured in northern Greenland on Oct. 4, 2023.

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  • National Security

What to know about Pituffik, the only U.S. military base in Greenland

Vice President JD Vance will travel to Greenland this week, including a stop at Pituffik Space Base, the U.S. Defense Department's northernmost installation and its only outpost on the island.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to reporters after the Supreme Court voted that he should stand trial for allegedly attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday.

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  • World

Brazil's Supreme Court says Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt

The former far-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, will face trial for allegedly attempting to overturn his 2022 reelection loss and stage a violent coup.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
President Trump, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office on March 13.

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  • World

How Europeans are reacting to the Yemen war plans group chat

In Europe, there's now a sense of a "broken relationship" in discovering "the extent of American hostility," one French analyst said. "But like in love, there is life after a breakup."

March 26, 2025
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  • Willem Marx
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