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The wife of a journalist, who was shot during an armed gang attack on the General Hospital, cries as an ambulance arrives with his body, at a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

A gang attack on a Haitian hospital reopening kills 2 reporters and a police officer

Street gangs forced the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince to close earlier this year. As journalists gathered to cover its reopening, suspected gang members opened fire.

December 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Transcarpathian Folk Choir performs a song and dance for a music video that they are working on to share their music. Ukraine's St. Miklos Castle, which is now an arts exhibit space, a meeting place and museum for local history, provides the backdrop.

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  • Europe

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

In the Transcarpathia region, some locals embrace a traditional lifestyle and cultural identity. After surviving Soviet threats, now they fear President Vladimir Putin seeks to erase their culture.

December 25, 2024
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  • Claire Harbage,
  • Catie Dull,
  • and 1 more
In this image provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire following a Russian missile attack on the country's energy system in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Wednesday.

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  • Europe

Russia targets Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Christmas Day

Russia's massive missile and drone barrage struck a thermal power plant and prompted Ukrainians to shelter in metro stations on Christmas morning.

December 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.

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  • World

Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan leaving 32 survivors

An Azerbaijani airliner crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau with 30 people likely dead and at least 32 survivors, according to officials.

December 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Oleksandr Budko, a 28-year-old Ukrainian war veteran, whose military call sign is Teren, poses for a portrait in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 18. Budko, a double amputee, participated in the Ukrainian version of the TV show <em>The Bachelor</em>.

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  • Europe

'The Bachelor,' Ukraine edition, features a veteran who lost both legs in the war

He wants to give hope to the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have lost limbs since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

December 25, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Hanna Palamarenko
A group of Syrian children with their parents return home in the cabin of a truck, after more than eight years taking shelter in the Rukban camp for displaced people in al-Tanf, Syria, at the edge of the Jordanian border, Dec. 14.

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  • Middle East

The Assad regime's fall has freed displaced Syrians stuck in a remote desert camp

More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ISIS attacks almost a decade ago.

December 24, 2024
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  • Jane Arraf
Callsign "Sonic", 34, a сommander of the strike unmanned aerial vehicle platoon, known as Dovbush's hornets, a unit of 68th Separate Jäger Brigade.  He watches the live streams of drone pilots operating in the Donbas Region on Dec. 19, 2024.

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  • World

Inside a secret Ukrainian drone command post, where Russian soldiers are seen as prey

NPR visits a secret drone command center near the front lines in eastern Ukraine, where crews are using remote-controlled aircraft to hunt Russian soldiers on the battlefield.

December 24, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Former President Donald Trump departs the courtroom after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30 in New York City.

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  • News

H-1B visas face uncertainty during Trump's 2nd term. And, the perfect mashed potatoes

Foreign-born scientists may face challenges working in the U.S. during President-elect Donald Trump's second term. And, cooking tips for the perfect mashed potatoes this holiday.

December 24, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Media swarm Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, on Monday.

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  • Latin America

Drug lord is deported to Colombia and walks free after 20 years in U.S. prisons

Fabio Ochoa, one of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel, has been deported back to the South American country, where he has walked free.

December 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Cyclists pass police standing next to a burning makeshift tyre barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon's South Okkalapa township on April 1, 2021.

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  • Perspective

How hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

December 23, 2024
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  • Derek Mitchell
Children play with water in springtime outside a temporary classroom built for the evacuated residents of Kibbutz Be'eri. With over 90 residents killed and 30 taken hostage last Oct. 7, the kibbutz was one of the hardest hit communities that day. Nine hundred of its residents evacuated to a Dead Sea hotel and worked to maintain the unity of the community and build educational frameworks to help the children of the kibbutz recover from the trauma they went through.

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  • World

How an Israeli community helped its children heal from trauma after the Oct. 7 attack

Kibbutz Be'eri was hit hard in the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023. Survivors were evacuated to a hotel, where they worked together to create programs to help their children recover from trauma.

December 23, 2024
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By:
  • Alon Avital
President Biden speaks during a reception in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 16.

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  • News

Biden commutes 37 federal death row sentences. And, a push to understand long COVID

President Biden commuted 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole this morning. Here are the factors that drove his decision. And, a push to better understand long COVID.

December 23, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Lebanese officials say eight people were killed in an October airstrike on this 19th century Greek Catholic church in the village of Derdghaya. The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike, but said it was targeting terrorists who it says embed near or beneath cultural heritage sites.

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  • World

What the Israel-Hezbollah war did to Lebanon's cultural heritage sites

Part of a Crusader castle crumbled. An 18th century minaret felled. Church mosaics burned. Archaeologists are assessing damage to UNESCO World Heritage Sites from Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Syria.

December 23, 2024
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  • Lauren Frayer
Visitors look at a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the tsunami 2004 in Tsunami memorial park, at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand.

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  • World

Trauma lingers on for survivors of the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.

December 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Avocados grow on trees in an orchard in the municipality of Ario de Rosales, Michoacan State, Mexico, on Sept. 21, 2023. Tariffs on Mexican imports would have a big effect on avocados in the U.S.

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  • Food

Why Trump's tariffs on Mexico would mean higher avocado prices at the grocery store

Most avocados consumed in the U.S. are grown in Mexico. Here's what Trump's proposed tariffs would mean for prices at the grocery store and for the avocado industry.

December 23, 2024
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  • James Doubek
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