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News Articles: World

Tetiana (left) and Olena, members of the female air defense unit known as the "Combat Witches of Bucha," assemble a Maxim machine gun during training in the Kyiv region, Ukraine

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  • Europe

How these suburban moms in Ukraine manage grief by training to down Russian drones

Women from a Kyiv suburb traumatized by a 2022 massacre by Russian troops joined a volunteer air defense unit to take down Russia's drones — and deal with their fears.

January 10, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun new president, on Thursday, in Beirut, Lebanon.

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  • World

Lebanon chooses a new president after two years without one

Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Fire and smoke are visible in the city of Sierra Madre, Calif., Tuesday night.

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  • News

Wildfires upend lives in Southern California. And, Jimmy Carter's state funeral

Wildfires drastically impact life in Southern California, destroying neighborhoods. Here's where things stand. And, what to expect from former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral today.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has built a sizeable lead in the race to be Canada's next prime minister. He's seen here in December, speaking at a news conference in Ottawa.

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  • Politics

What's next for Canada? 5 questions will help decide the future after Trudeau

"We're in a unique situation in Canadian politics," Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, tells NPR. Voters need to replace a lame-duck leader — and cope with threats from Trump.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A chimney and pipes of the BKM Nonprofit Fotav Zrt power plant in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 3. The subzero temperatures coincide with the end of the Russia-Ukraine pipeline transit deal, leaving the region without a key source of gas supply.

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  • World

Here's what's behind Russia cutting off its last gas line to Europe

A decades-long Russian-Ukrainian transit gas deal to Europe ended on Jan. 1. For now, the most acute effects are being felt in a region called Transnistria, on the eastern edge of Moldova.

January 09, 2025
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Viktar Babaryka, a former presidential hopeful, stands inside a defendants' cage during his trial in Minsk, Belarus, on July 6, 2021.

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  • World

Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after being incommunicado for over 700 days

He was last heard from in February 2023. Since then, authorities haven't released any information about his condition and barred his lawyer from visits.

January 09, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A Syrian woman who arrived at a first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad shouts anti-Assad slogans at the arrival terminal of Damascus international airport, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday.

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  • World

First international commercial flight since Assad's ouster lands in Syria

The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport. Many passengers were Syrian nationals coming come for the first time in more than a decade.

January 08, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
An aerial view of mountains just north of Greenland's capital, Nuuk. Greenland is bigger than Mexico and has a sparse population of just 56,000 people.

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  • National

What to know about Trump and his keen interest in Greenland

President-elect Donald Trump has said multiple times that the U.S. should buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. The sparsely populated island is geopolitically important and mineral-rich.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Armed Dutch patriots round up fellow townspeople accused of collaborating with the Nazis in Nijmegen in October 1944.

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  • Europe

A list of half a million names shines new light on Dutch collaboration with Nazis

The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past.

January 07, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Sudanese refugees arrive in Acre, Chad, Oct 6. 2024.

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  • Africa

The U.S. says Sudan's rebel forces have committed genocide

The Biden administration said the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces group and its proxies are committing genocide in a civil war with the country's military that has killed tens of thousands of people.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Tetiana Medvedenko (left) and Iryna Ostanko (right), both underground machine operators, walk to the elevators that will take them below the surface into a DTEK coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine.

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  • World

In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women are now working in coal mines

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Michael Robinson Chávez
Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc in Paris in 2017

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  • Europe

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers search for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri in Xigaze, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan. 7, 2025.

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  • Asia

Strong earthquake kills dozens in region of Tibet near Mount Everest

A strong earthquake killed dozens of people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the high-altitude region of western China and across the border in Nepal.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech on reducing NHS wait times as he visits a health care provider in Surrey, England, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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  • Europe

U.K. leader Starmer slams 'lies and misinformation' after attacks from Elon Musk

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned "lies and misinformation" that he said are undermining U.K. democracy, in response to a barrage of attacks on his government from Elon Musk.

January 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
People walk past a guard tower outside the fencing of Camp 5 at the the U.S. military's prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 26, 2017.

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  • National Security

U.S. transfers 11 Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo to Oman

The Biden administration's move leaves just 15 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Oman will help resettle the men and provide security monitoring.

January 06, 2025
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
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