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Assessing The Myth Of Vladimir Putin

8:17am April 28, 2016

Is Russian President Vladimir Putin the unquestioned master of his realm? Steve Inskeep talks to Mark Galeotti, a professor at New York University, about a piece he's written for the website Vox.

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London Poet Leaves Mysterious Sign Posts In Kentish Town

4:38pm April 27, 2016

For three years, someone has been putting funny, often inspiring signs on a front stoop in Kentish Town, London. NPR spoke with the man behind the words, poet Mark Waddell.

Aissatou Sanogo and her late husband, Souleymane Diaby.

She Told Her Husband She Didn't Want Him To Leave For Europe

12:07pm April 27, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

But he wouldn't listen. Disaster struck. And now she's one of a growing number of migrant widows in Africa.

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A police officer guards the entrance of the judicial police headquarters in Paris. The French prosecutor's office said Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in the Paris attacks, was transferred from Belgium to France on Wednesday morning.

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Key Paris Attacks Suspect Salah Abdeslam Extradited To France

9:10am April 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Abdeslam, who is believed to be the only surviving participant of the attacks in Paris last November, was captured in Brussels in March. He's expected to appear before a French judge today.

British Inquest Finds Police At Fault For Hillsborough Soccer Stadium Disaster

8:05pm April 26, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

An inquest into the deaths of 96 soccer fans in a British sports stadium has concluded that faulty policing was responsible. The supporters of Liverpool Football Club were crushed to death during a game in 1989. Their relatives had to fight for nearly 30 years to overcome a police cover-up, which included allegations that the fans themselves were to blame for the disaster.

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'Reuters' Reporter Explores Life In Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster

7:38pm April 26, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Matthias Williams, chief Ukraine correspondent for Reuters, about what Chernobyl is like today 30 years after the nuclear power plant exploded.

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Victims await the start of the trial of Dutch dentist Jacobus Van Nierop on March 8 at the Nevers courthouse in central France. Van Nierop has since been sentenced to eight years behind bars.

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'Dentist Of Horror' Gets 8 Years For Harming Patients In France

2:57pm April 26, 2016

by Dana Farrington

Jacobus Van Nierop performed "useless and painful procedures" on more than 100 people in a rural French town, the prosecutor argued. He won't be practicing dentistry again.

Scientists Experiment With 'Headprints'

6:11am April 26, 2016

German scientists are researching how an ultrasound technique would bounce off a person's head — noting the special way a skull vibrates in response. It would be as unique as a fingerprint.

A woman waits for her train Monday at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels, as a soldier patrols the platform. The station, where more than a dozen people died in an attack on March 22, reopened Monday.

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Brussels Reopens Metro Station Where Bombing Took Lives

1:57pm April 25, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Announcing that all its stations would be operating today, Brussels' transport authority used a smiley face in its tweet.

In the 1940s, planes demonstrate DDT spraying at Congressional Airport, outside of Washington, D.C. They were part of a fleet headed to Greece to target mosquito breeding areas.

A Big 'Woo-Hoo' For Europe On #WorldMalariaDay: No New Cases In 2015

1:40pm April 25, 2016

by Emily Sohn

How did the Europeans do it? And are there lessons to be learned for the developing world?