Europe

Courier Strike In Berlin Keeps ATMs From Being Replenished

10:45am May 11, 2015

by Esme Nicholson

Couriers who re-fill ATMs in Berlin have been on strike for more than a week, and there's no end in sight. That's a problem in a country where almost 80 percent of all transactions are cash payments.

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Pope Francis talks with Cuban President Raul Castro during a private audience at the Vatican on Sunday.

Raul Castro Says Pope Inspiring Him To Return To Church

3:14pm May 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Cuban leader, who went to Jesuit schools as a child, says he might "resume praying and turn to the Church again" if Francis "continues in this vein."

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Ex-NATO Chief: 'We Will Never Recognize' Russia's Annexation Of Crimea

6:29am May 10, 2015

As Moscow marks 70 years since the allied victory over Hitler, NPR's Scott Simon talks to former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the West's frayed relations with Russia.

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Russia Holds WWII Remembrance; Western Leaders Stay Home

6:29am May 10, 2015

NPR's Corey Flintoff tells NPR's Scott Simon about Russia's celebration of the victory over Hitler 70 years ago Saturday. Western leaders stayed away to protest Russian moves on Ukraine.

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Plenty Were Humbled In UK Elections

6:29am May 10, 2015

After conservatives swept to power in the British vote on Thursday, we look at the election's many losers and what their defeat means.

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Nate Silver On Missed UK Forecasts: We Flubbed The Margin Of Error

6:29am May 10, 2015

Data guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com tells NPR's Scott Simon how all the forecasts, including his own, were so far off in predicting the results of this week's British election.

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'Fairytales Exist': Migrants Get A Football Team Of Their Own

6:29am May 10, 2015

Host Scott Simon reports that a soccer team of African migrants, formed by a priest, has reached the top of its league in Italy's Calabria region.

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Three Generations Of Le Pens Fight For Party's Future

6:29am May 10, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

The people of France are bemused and entertained by family squabbles at the top of the far-right National Front.

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Russian Army T-14 Armata tanks drive towards Red Square to participate in the annual Victory Day Parade.

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Russia Celebrates WWII Victory Over Germany

6:26pm May 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Casualties for Soviet Russia far exceeded other allies arrayed against the Nazis. An estimated 24 million soldiers and civilians were killed.

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Actors dressed as World War II Soviet Red Army soldiers take a break during rehearsals Thursday at Red Square ahead of Saturday's celebrations.

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At Russia's Huge WWII Remembrance, An Absence Of Western Leaders

10:38pm May 08, 2015

by Corey Flintoff

A decade ago, President George W. Bush was among those who visited Moscow for the occasion. Today, the event highlights the friction between Russia and the West.

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