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News Articles: World

Rescuers and volunteers work to clean up tons of fuel oil that spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers more than two weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, near Anapa in Russia's southern Krasnodar region.

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32 dolphins have died since an oil spill near southern Russia, experts say

A dolphin rescue center said most of the dead dolphins were from the endangered Azov species.

January 06, 2025
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A woman in Kfar Saba, Israel, passes a wall on Monday covered with photos of hostages kidnapped to the Gaza Strip during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.

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  • World

Hamas and Israel are negotiating the release of 34 hostages from Gaza

The deal would secure release of a third of the approximately 100 hostages who remain in Gaza, including two dual U.S.-Israeli nationals. In return, Israel would release some Palestinian prisoners.

January 06, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Abu Bakr Bashir
A supporter of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol holds a placard reading "Stop the Steal" as he takes part in a rally near Yoon's residence in Seoul on Sunday.

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  • World

Lessons from self-inflicted blows to democracy in South Korea and the U.S.

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies.

January 06, 2025
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  • Anthony Kuhn
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he is stepping down, addressing Canadians from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday. Trudeau said he will leave office as soon as the ruling Liberal Party chooses a new leader.

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  • World

Canada's Justin Trudeau says he will resign as party leader and prime minister

Trudeau's decision after almost a decade in power sets the stage for a succession fight to select a new prime minister.

January 06, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
A monument of Soviet leader Josef Stalin sits in a statuary garden in Frumushika-Nova, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Pictures of Odesa, as it tangles with a complex web of Russian and Ukrainian heritage

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and intellectuals, but since 2022 has come under Russian attack.

January 06, 2025
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  • Michael Robinson Chávez
A jury found CNN defamed security contractor Zachary Young in a November 2021 report, shown above, about Afghans' fears of exorbitant charges from people offering to get them out of the country after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

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  • Media

CNN goes on trial over its report alleging 'black market' for Afghan rescues

A CNN story about a "black market" for rescuing people from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover is at the heart of a defamation trial that opens Monday in Florida.

January 06, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
A student has his meal during the kick off of President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious free meal program to feed children and pregnant women nationwide — despite critics saying that its required logistics could hurt Indonesia's state finances and economy — at an elementary school in Depok, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

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  • Asia

Indonesia launches free meals program to fight stunting

Indonesia's new government started an ambitious project to feed nearly 90 million children and pregnant women to fight malnutrition and stunting, as critics question whether the program is affordable.

January 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Fisherman Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan on Aug. 7. <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-30988/aral-sea"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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  • World

NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

January 05, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
A lady is seen pulling her child along on a sledge as they admire Anthony Gormley's sculpture, the Angel of the North, which is surrounded by heavy snow in Gateshead, North East England, as the severe weather continues across England, on Sunday.

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  • Europe

Heavy snow brings widespread disruption across the U.K.

Heavy snow and freezing rain has brought widespread disruption across the U.K., with several major airports forced to suspend flights and many key roads in the north of England unnavigable.

January 05, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, center right, and Argentine President Javier Milei hold hands from the government house balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo González embarks on international tour

González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election in Venezuela, kicked off an international tour on Saturday that will take him to Washington.

January 05, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Protesters stage a rally demanding the arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday. The letters read "Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol."

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  • Asia

South Korean protesters brave cold to demand Yoon's ouster as detention deadline looms

South Koreans rallied overnight near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol calling for his arrest, as authorities prepared to renew their efforts to detain him.

January 05, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A team of 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford uncovered around 200 dinosaur footprints along five trackways in southeast England during a week-long excavation in June 2024.

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  • Science

Jurassic footprints are discovered on a 'dinosaur highway' in southern England

The 166-million-year-old footprint tracks, found at a quarry in southern England, mark one of the largest discoveries in decades.

January 04, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
This photo provided by Ashiya City shows Tomiko Itooka, being celebrated for her 116th birthday at the nursing home she lives in Ashiya, western Japan, on May 23, 2024.

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  • World

Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

January 04, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014.

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  • National

The attack in New Orleans reveals ISIS' influence lingers, experts say

The man behind the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans said in videos that he was inspired by ISIS and had joined the group this summer. This attack shows ISIS' resonance and resilience persists.

January 03, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A physician in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examines an x-ray of a tuberculous patient.

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  • Global Health

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

January 03, 2025
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
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