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A Taiwan's Mirage 2000 fighter jet takes off at an airbase in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, as Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it detected Chinese naval ships and military planes engaged in training. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

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  • Asia

Taiwan's Defense Ministry says a large Chinese military force has been detected nearby

China's secretive military appears to be up to something around Taiwan, but it's unclear whether it's a formal military drill.

December 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Taylor Swift, pictured performing at Amsterdam's Johan Cruijff Arena in July, wrapped up her Eras Tour after 21 months and five continents.

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  • Music News

The Eras era ends: A look back at Taylor Swift's record-breaking, 21-month tour

Swift has made over $2 billion in ticket sales and spent over 25 hours singing the 10-minute version of "All Too Well" since March 2023. Here's a look at the historic tour and what might come next.

December 10, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A screenshot of the AI-generated "Daisy" — a new program launched by British phone company O2 to combat phone scams.

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  • Technology

A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game

The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Bodies in bodybags are placed on the side of the road after a deadly semi-trailer truck crash in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2021.

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  • World

6 charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash

The truck had been packed with at least 160 migrants when it crashed into a support for a pedestrian bridge in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

December 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Rafaat Nasrallah smokes a cigarette in his village on the Syria-Lebanon border. "We are at the border," he says, "our roads lead to Syria, because for us Syria is my country as well as Lebanon."

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  • Middle East

In Lebanon, villagers on the border watch Syria's revolution with unease

While Syrian refugees in Lebanon return home, many Lebanese remain on edge. Years of conflict have left the Syria-Lebanon borderlands scarred, and fears grow that instability could spill over again.

December 09, 2024
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  • Ayman Oghanna,
  • Jawad Rizkallah,
  • and 1 more
Syrians inspect documents in the infamous Saydnaya prison, just north of Damascus, on Monday. Crowds are entering the prison, known as the "human slaughterhouse," following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad and the release of thousands of prisoners who were held by the regime.

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  • World

How Syria's revolution could reshape the Middle East

The swift downfall of Bashar al-Assad is reverberating throughout the Middle East. Countries are urgently reassessing how to deal with a nation seeking to rebuild itself after years of civil war.

December 09, 2024
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  • Greg Myre
A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Dec. 5.

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  • Latin America

A gang leader in Haiti is accused of massacring over 100 people

A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti's capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders to avenge his son's death.

December 09, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Syrians celebrate the arrival of opposition fighters in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.

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  • News

Rebels seized control of Syrian capital. And, Trump's 1st post-election TV interview

Rebels have seized control of Syria's capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia. And, President-elect Donald Trump reveals his plans to govern in first post-election network TV interview.

December 09, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions shout slogans as they hold signs carrying the names of the ruling party's lawmakers who didn't vote at the impeachment motion last week, during a rally in front of the ruling People Power Party's head office in Seoul, South Korea on Monday.

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  • World

South Korea's Justice Ministry imposes travel ban on President Yoon over martial law

Yoon's martial law decree plunged South Korea into political turmoil and caused worry among its key diplomatic partners.

December 09, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
After rocket strikes, workers at a Ukrainian thermal power plant repair the facility to restore power as temperatures drop, Oct. 4. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/07/nx-s1-5214478/russia-ukraine-war-energy-plant"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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  • Europe

Russia targets Ukraine's energy grid as winter sets in. Here's how one plant copes

Russian strikes continue to destroy Ukraine's power grid, prompting nationwide power cuts while temperatures drop. Workers at a damaged plant try to restore its operation before the winter freeze.

December 09, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis
Syrian opposition fighters celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus, Syria on December 8, 2024.

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  • World

Photos: See the fall of Damascus after Syrian rebels topple Assad's regime

Assad's downfall came less than two weeks after an initial incursion west of the country's second largest city, Aleppo, triggered a cascading series of routs and retreats by the demoralized Syrian military.

December 08, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
A man walks by a broken portrait of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad as people search for belongings in the ransacked private residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Malkeh district of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.

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  • World

Syrians ransack Assad's private residence in Damascus after the regime's downfall

The private residence of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was ransacked after rebels took over the capital, forcing him to flee the country.

December 08, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Syrian government falls to rebels, in stunning end to 50 year iron rule of the Assads

The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of Damascus and sent crowds into the streets to celebrate.

December 08, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Syrian President Bashar Assad listens during the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023.

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  • World

In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century of repressive rule

President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist that crushed dissent and relied on the country's feared security forces.

December 08, 2024
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  • Greg Myre
The choir, clergy and guests stand as they sing during a ceremony to mark the reopening of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral, in central Paris, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Photos: Notre Dame Cathedral reopens, with its first service since a devastating fire

The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire heavily damaged the Paris landmark in 2019.

December 07, 2024
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  • James Doubek,
  • Eleanor Beardsley,
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