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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega is pictured in Havana, Cuba, in December 2021. The Biden administration is dramatically ratcheting up pressure on Ortega's government in Nicaragua.

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Biden targets Nicaragua's gold industry in a new move against Daniel Ortega

Biden's order and other steps announced Monday are perhaps the most aggressive attempt by the U.S. to hold the Ortega accountable for his continued attacks on human rights and democracy.

October 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Rishi Sunak meets supporters at a Conservative Party leadership election in Birmingham, England, in August. He lost that election to Liz Truss.

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  • Europe

Rishi Sunak will become the next U.K. prime minister

A popular former chancellor of the exchequer under Boris Johnson's premiership, Sunak will be the first nonwhite to take the top job and the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years.

October 24, 2022
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  • Willem Marx
Senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif poses in December 2016 for photograph prior to recoding an episode of his talk show at a studio in Islamabad.

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  • Asia

A Pakistani journalist living in hiding was killed by police at a roadblock in Kenya

Arshad Sharif, 50, had been in hiding since July after he fled Pakistan to avoid arrest. He had been critical of the country's military and the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

October 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A resident looks out the window holding a candle for light inside her house during a power outage, in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday. Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark.

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  • World

Ukraine war updates: Russia hits power grid, Iran accused of stepping in (Oct. 24)

As Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine hits the eight-month mark, here's a look at key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of the war.

October 24, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A migrant found smuggled in a vehicle is apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and the Webb County Sheriff on Oct. 12 in Laredo, Texas.

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  • National

The U.S. set a new record for apprehensions at the southern border

Migrants apprehensions at the southern border this past year jumped by 37% compared to the year ago. A growing number of border-crossers are from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

October 24, 2022
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  • Juliana Kim
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at Gatwick Airport in London on Saturday, after travelling on a flight from the Caribbean following the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister.

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  • Europe

Boris Johnson drops out of the race to be the next U.K. prime minister

Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is now the strong favorite to become Britain's next prime minister — the third this year — at a time of political turmoil and severe economic challenges.

October 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
China's President Xi Jinping waves during the introduction of members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, in Beijing on Sunday.

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  • Asia

China's Xi Jinping emerges from the Communist Party congress with dominance

Xi Jinping has came out of the party congress stronger than ever after securing a third term as party boss and pushing all but his most loyal of allies out of the picture.

October 23, 2022
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  • John Ruwitch
The Bulldog watch, released by MB&F in March 2020, retails for $100,000 and sold out almost immediately.

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  • Business

What the wild journey of a $100,000 watch can teach us about global markets

The luxury watch market was a sleepy, shrinking industry until it got caught up in a tidal wave of market forces.

October 23, 2022
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  • Stacey Vanek Smith
Repair Together volunteers dance to music in Anysiv, Ukraine, after a day of cleaning up destroyed homes in nearby Kolychivka on Oct 1. The after-party took place in a theater damaged by shelling. Repair Together is a Ukrainian volunteer initiative that organizes young people to travel to and clean up sites damaged by Russian strikes.

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  • World

Young Ukrainians volunteer to clean up destroyed homes — and try to make it fun

Young volunteers blast techno music while helping people in destroyed villages and then hold dance parties to blow off steam. "Listening to music keeps us balanced, so we can keep working," one says.

October 23, 2022
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  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Pete Kiehart
This satellite image shows Hurricane Roslyn approaching the Pacific coast of Mexico on Saturday.

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  • Weather

Hurricane Roslyn is forecast to bring a dangerous storm surge to parts of Mexico

The storm was forecast "to bring damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains to portions of west-central Mexico today," the U.S. National Hurricane Center said at 12 a.m. Sunday.

October 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A man gestures as people attend a protest against the Iranian regime in Berlin on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Iran protests spark solidarity rallies in the U.S. and Europe

Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran.

October 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Tetyana Safonova looks at her mobile phone during a power outage on Thursday in Borodyanka, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's power grid sustains record damage in Russian strikes, utility says

Over 1.4 million households have lost electricity after repeated Russian air raids, the president's office says. Ukraine's power utility says the extent of the damage eclipses earlier attacks.

October 22, 2022
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  • Julian Hayda
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, looks over as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang raises his hand to vote at the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing on Saturday.

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  • Asia

China's Communist Party moves to solidify Xi Jinping's power in leadership shuffle

Two notable members were removed from the upper leadership ranks. The congress also approved the addition of new wording to the party charter that cements Xi's role as the so-called core of the party.

October 22, 2022
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  • Emily Feng
Here's what eight refugees cherish as a touch of home (clockwise from top left): Ukrainian sheet music; an Afghan dress; incense stones from Yemen; a ceremonial cup and plate from an Indian village; a word from the K'iche' language from Guatemala; a diary kept by a trans woman from Honduras; a Liberian woman's passport; and (center) a Tibetan dumpling that has proved popular in Kashmir.

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  • World

Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

If you had to leave your home, you'd bring essential items for survival. But if you could take one sentimental object, what would it be? We asked refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Honduras and more.

October 22, 2022
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  • NPR Special Report
Italian President Sergio Mattarella is flanked by newly appointed Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni during the swearing in ceremony in Rome on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has been sworn in as Italian premier

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.

October 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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