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News Articles: World

The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, but it has since become a nation of fishermen as well, with hundreds of pirogues lining the beach of the capital of Nouakchott.

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

Traveling to 36 countries and 5 oceans, George Steinmetz (and his drones) take us on a food tour in his new book Feed the Planet:  A Photographic Journey to the World's Food.

November 27, 2024
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  • Diane Cole
Researchers used fossilized poos, known scientifically as coprolites, to learn more about how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth.

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  • Science

Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A first responder looks for survivors at the scene of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday.

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  • News

Israel and Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect. And, TSA-approved Thanksgiving foods

Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah begins their ceasefire, but many remain displaced. And, if you are traveling for the holidays here are the foods you can bring through TSA.

November 27, 2024
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.

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  • World

Brazil police report: Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot

The document describe the former president as one of the key leaders of the plot, and not a mere observer.

November 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A first responder looks for survivors at the scene of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militants has begun

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect at 4 a.m. Wednesday local time. Israel agreed Tuesday to the ceasefire to stop the war it's been fighting with the Iran-backed militant group for over a year.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A group walks on the UC Berkeley campus on March 14, 2022, in Berkeley, Calif. California led the U.S. in international enrollment, with over 140,000 international students attending schools there in the 2023-24 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education.

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  • Education

With a record number of international students in the U.S., Trump brings uncertainty

Some schools and international students in the U.S. worry about what's to come in the incoming Trump administration. Meanwhile, a new report finds more international students in the U.S. than ever.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Palestinians inspect damage following an Israeli airstrike that hit a home in the north of Gaza City on Thursday.

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  • World

Eyewitnesses in Gaza say Israel is using sniper drones to shoot Palestinians

NPR has collected multiple eyewitness accounts about small, gun-carrying drones shooting — and sometimes killing — civilians in Gaza. Israel's military has not confirmed whether it uses sniper drones.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
A father becomes increasingly paranoid in Mohammad Rasoulof's <em>The Seed of The Sacred Fig </em>after misplacing his service weapon and resorts to using interrogation tactics on his wife and daughters.

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  • Movie Interviews

Mohammad Rasoulof left Iran after making his most daring film

Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

November 26, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • Leila Fadel
People inspect the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted a branch of the Al-Qard Al-Hassan finance group in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday.

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  • News

How Trump wants to cut spending. And, possible Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal

President-elect Donald Trump wants to use a presidential impoundment to make big cuts to government spending. And, what could block a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah.

November 26, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
A file photo from April 30, 2014, shows then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel attending the parliamentary election campaign program for Hesse State, at the Frankfurt's Kap European Congress Center in Frankfurt, Germany.

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  • Author Interviews

Angela Merkel and the future of NATO under a second Trump term

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she had to consider whether she is a "feminist." She joined NPR's Mary Louise Kelly to discuss her new memoir, Freedom.

November 26, 2024
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Courtney Dorning,
  • and 2 more
Supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, burn bushes to reduce the impact of tear gas shells fired by police officers to disperse them during a rally demanding Khan's release, at a motorway in Ghazi in Attock district, Pakistan on Sunday.

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  • World

Supporters of ousted Pakistani leader clash with police, at least six people killed

Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and at least one person has died in clashes.

November 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Jad Deeb, a volunteer of the Lebanese Popular Relief Association, prepares school clothes for displaced Lebanese children with one of his colleagues in their office in Beirut, Lebanon.

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  • World

Lebanon's first responders say Israeli strikes target them as they work to save lives

More than 200 emergency and medical workers have been killed since last October, Lebanon's health ministry says. Many believe Israel's military is targeting them in its war against Hezbollah.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani
Rescuers rope off an area around a dead pilot whale that was stranded on Ruakākā Beach in northland, New Zealand on Sunday.

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  • World

New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A plastic bottle and the remains of a child's spade on the beach in Prestatyn, U.K..

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  • Climate

Plastic waste is everywhere. Countries have one more chance to agree on a solution

Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Calin Georgescu, running as an independent candidate for president, speaks to media after registering his bid in the country's presidential elections, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.

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  • Europe

Romania in shock after far-right populist enters presidential election's runoff

Romania's political landscape is reeling after a little-known, far-right populist secured the first round in the presidential election, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent prime minister.

November 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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