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A Chinese survey ship docked this week at the Hambantota port, built with Chinese loans. Some worry the ship's arrival may signal the start of militarization of Chinese infrastructure in Sri Lanka.
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Incensed by two people he saw as making a mockery of Venice, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro offered a free dinner to anyone who could help bring them to justice.
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Feeling vindicated by recent evidence of an Iranian plot to kill former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, opponents to reviving the nuclear deal with Iran are pressing their case.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ronald Jocelyn, the education director of the Hope for Haiti, about conditions on the ground in Haiti one year after a devastating earthquake hit the country.
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Press freedom in Hong Kong has tanked in recent years. Many journalists have left the field, but a few have set up tiny outlets to report on local issues and try to hold the authorities to account.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former Afghanistan Minster of Education Rangina Hamidi after speaking to her a year ago, as Taliban forces captured city after city in the country.
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Two documentaries — one involving a pre-WWII home movie, the other dispatches from the Amazon rainforest — have much in common.
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Governments are watching lucrative alcohol tax revenues dry up, as people drink less. In Japan, a plan to counter that trend is running into controversy.
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Ethiopia's government is criticizing as "unethical" the statement by the World Health Organization's director-general that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth."
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Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska was criticized for her pose on the cover of the famous fashion magazine. People are coming to her defense to challenge stereotypes about women.
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Dozens of women protested against the release of the men in the capital, New Delhi on Thursday.
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As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on, former Soviet republics like Latvia plan to destroy Soviet-era monuments. Some believe they should remain as tributes to the fight against Nazis in World War II.