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Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin To Meet Face-To-Face In Vladivostok

7:27am April 24, 2019

by Anthony Kuhn

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in person at a bilateral summit in Russia on Thursday, as U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks remain at a stalemate.

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News Brief: Sri Lanka Attacks, Russian Interference, Kim-Putin Summit

7:13am April 24, 2019

Sri Lanka holds funerals for victims. Jared Kushner says the probes into Russian interference have been more damaging than the interference itself. North Korean and Russian leaders to meet Thursday.

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Sociology professor Chan Kin-man (left), law professor Benny Tai (center), and Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming (right) chant slogans before entering the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong on Wednesday to receive their sentences after being convicte

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'Umbrella' Protesters Sentenced For 2014 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Demonstration

4:37am April 24, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

A judge sentenced the leaders of the protests to up to 16 months in prison. Rights groups said the sentencing would have a chilling effect on future demonstrations in Hong Kong.

The name of India's Mughalsarai railway station, near Varanasi, was changed last year to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, for a right-wing Hindu leader who died there in 1968.

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India Is Changing Some Cities' Names, And Muslims Fear Their Heritage Is Being Erased

11:05pm April 23, 2019

by Lauren Frayer

Officials have been altering names to become more Hinducentric. "It is very dangerous for national integrity and unity," says a historian. The changes accelerated ahead of this year's elections.

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Terrorism Expert Weighs In On ISIS Claim Of Responsibility In Sri Lanka Attacks

6:13pm April 23, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with terrorism expert and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ali Soufan about the ISIS claim of responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka.

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Why The Easter Sunday Attacks Targeting Christians In Sri Lanka Were So Shocking

6:13pm April 23, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mathew Schmalz, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, who studied Christian communities in Sri Lanka, including those attacked Sunday.

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Investigation Into The Easter Sunday Attacks Continues In Sri Lanka

5:10pm April 23, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sarath Dissanayake, charge d'affaires from the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington, D.C., about what is now known about the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka.

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Remembering The Victims Of The Easter Sunday Attacks In Sri Lanka

5:10pm April 23, 2019

by Greg Myre

The victims of Sunday's bombings in Sri Lanka came from around the world. As funerals and burials begin, the victims are being remembered.

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Mourners gather during a mass funeral at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo on Tuesday, following a series of coordinated bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Mass Funerals Begin In A Grieving Sri Lanka

4:24pm April 23, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

Mourners and religious leaders gathered to say goodbye to more than 300 people who died in a string of bombings on Sunday at churches and hotels. Among the dead are 45 children.

A resident looks at the rubble of St. Catherine church on Tuesday, including the toppled head of a statue, following a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Pampanga province northwest of Manila the previous day.

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2 Earthquakes Shake The Philippines; At Least 16 Dead

3:22pm April 23, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

Rescuers continue to search for survivors of Monday's quake, which trapped people in a collapsed supermarket in Pampanga province and caused panicked office workers to flee buildings in Manila.