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Brian Harman celebrates on the 18th green after winning the British Open Golf Championships at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England, on Sunday.

Brian Harman wins the British Open in his first major championship

2:57pm July 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

Brian Harman turned back every challenge in the British Open, from big names to bad weather, and took his place among major champions with a victory that was never seriously in doubt.

Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.

Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the 2nd straight year

2:32pm July 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively his again before the largely ceremonial final stage.

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Ravaged by Russian troops, Bucha rises from the ashes

8:06am July 23, 2023

by Greg Myre

One Ukrainian suburb was devastated at the start of Russia's invasion. Now, it's finding ways to rebuild and honor those killed. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on July 21, 2023.)

A man carries a child as they leave an area where a forest fire burns, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, Saturday, July 22, 2023. A large wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced authorities to order an evacuation of four locations, including two seaside resorts.

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19,000 people have been evacuated as a wildfire rages on the Greek island of Rhodes

6:19am July 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

A wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced authorities to order an evacuation of sites including seaside resorts that are full of tourists.

Firefighters walk inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, heavily damaged in a Russian missile attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, July 23, 2023.

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A Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa has killed one and badly damaged a cathedral

6:13am July 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

Russia struck the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, keeping up a barrage of attacks that has damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine in the past week.

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The world is isolating Putin. Here's what that could mean for the war

2:29pm July 22, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Angela Stent of Georgetown University about Russian President Vladimir Putin's growing isolation and what it might mean for Russia's war in Ukraine.

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24 years after Kosovo, the U.S. is asking Serbia's president not to side with Putin

8:20am July 22, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

The U.S. is appealing to Serbia's president while Russia would like nothing better than renewed conflict in Kosovo, where tensions are at their highest in two decades.

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A week after ending the grain deal, Russia is bombing Ukrainian ports carrying grain

8:00am July 22, 2023

The United Nations says Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports pose a threat to the global food market. The U.S. is seeking to safeguard Ukrainian grain shipments.

The rise of the far right in Spain is putting extra pressure on the upcoming election

5:06pm July 21, 2023

by Miguel Macias

Spain heads to the polls this weekend in what could be one of the most important elections in years. Spain is now run by a center-left government – but the rise of the far right has many worried.

After Columbus wrote the letter in 1493, it was reprinted in Latin and circulated across Europe. Several copies have resurfaced in the U.S., including this one stolen from Venice in the 1980s.

A stolen Christopher Columbus letter found in Delaware returns to Italy decades later

2:56pm July 21, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

A rare copy of a letter from Columbus to Spain's royals detailing his voyage vanished from a Venice museum in the 1980s. U.S. authorities have repatriated it to Rome after a yearslong investigation.