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Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa.

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  • Asia

Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes and noted that China does not recognize dual citizenship.

March 20, 2025
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Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, is among a group of lawmakers who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

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  • World

Trump admin. cuts funding for program that tracked Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Greg Landsman, a lawmaker who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

March 19, 2025
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Tinbete Ermyas,
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In this picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it's launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people.

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  • Middle East

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israel's military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops into areas they retreated from during a two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after airstrikes killed more than 400 people.

March 19, 2025
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  • Russell Lewis,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a  joint press conference with the Finnish president at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Zelensky and First Lady Zelenska are on an official visit to Finland.

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  • World

Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump's call with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke for about an hour with President Trump on Wednesday, following Trump's call on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

March 19, 2025
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  • Nick Spicer and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them.

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  • Media

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

March 19, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Former U.S. Agency for International Development employees terminated after the Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at USAID headquarters on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

Musk, DOGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop

A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution when shuttering the USAID. And, a look at when egg prices are likely to drop.

March 19, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no alternative" other than to resume military operations in order to bring home hostages.

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  • Middle East

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

March 19, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II multi-role combat airplane flies over Ramstein Air Base during a day of fighter plane exercises on June 6, 2024, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany.

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  • World

Trump's handling of Ukraine and tariffs has NATO rethinking the U.S.-made F-35 fighter

The F-35 was meant as a one-size-fits-all fighter that could be used across NATO. But strained U.S.-Europe relations are giving some member countries second thoughts about the U.S.-built plane.

March 19, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

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  • World

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024

The United Nations has long been in the spotlight over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers, especially by those based in Congo and the Central African Republic.

March 19, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A young supporter of bullfighting joins a demonstration in support of bullfighting outside Mexico City's Congress where lawmakers are expected to debate its continuation in Mexico City on Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

Mexico City bans violent bullfighting, sparking fury and celebration

The decision sparked angry protests from bullfighting supporters and matadors, some of whom tried to breach a police barricade at the local Congress.

March 19, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A view of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) building headquarters on March 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump administration employees entered the building on Monday with the help of law enforcement officials after President Trump ordered the dismantling of the congressionally funded independent nonprofit.

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  • Politics

What is the U.S. Institute of Peace and why is Trump trying to shut it down?

Founded during the Cold War to project American soft power and foreign policy expertise, the federally-funded nonprofit think tank is now in the White House's crosshairs

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. in the 1880s, celebrating their friendship and the anniversary of U.S. independence.

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  • Politics

Does the U.S. deserve the Statue of Liberty? Not anymore, one French politician says

A French politician suggested the two countries no longer share the values that inspired the gift more than a century ago. The White House sharply rejected his request, which he described as symbolic.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The United State Institute of Peace building is seen, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Washington.

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  • Politics

DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help

The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

March 18, 2025
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  • Michele Kelemen
German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz, right, speaks during a debate about loosening the country's debt rules in the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday.

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  • World

German lawmakers approve huge defense and infrastructure spending

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

March 18, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador on Sunday.

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  • Politics

4 things to know about the Alien Enemies Act and Trump's efforts to use it

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

March 18, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
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