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Final votes are being counted in Turkey's closely watched presidential election

7:43am May 15, 2023

It looks like Turkey's presidential election is heading for a runoff between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

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Morning news brief

6:40am May 15, 2023

Votes are being counted in Turkey's presidential election. U.N. marks 75th anniversary of Palestinian displacement. North Carolina governor vetoes a 12-week abortion ban, setting up an override fight.

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A worker holds a shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

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Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children

5:16am May 15, 2023

by The Associated Press

A two-year effort is underway to preserve 8,000 children's shoes at the former concentration and extermination camp where German forces murdered 1.1 million people during World War II.

Thousands of unregistered weapons are being turned in during Serbia's gun amnesty

5:10am May 15, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Igor Božic, news director for TV N-1 in Belgrade, about Serbia's amnesty program to turn in unregistered guns following back-to-back mass shootings.

Tight race in Turkey, where the man who's ruled for 2 decades wants to say in power

5:10am May 15, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Gönül Tol, founding director of the Middle East Institute's Turkey program, about the results of Sunday's presidential election in Turkey.

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, inspects weapons collected as part of an amnesty near the city of Smederevo, Serbia, Sunday, May 14, 2023.

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Guns, grenades and rocket launchers are among 13,500 weapons surrendered in Serbia

1:46am May 15, 2023

by The Associated Press

The government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following the two shootings this month that left 17 people dead.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with supporters at a polling station, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday.

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Turkey's Erdogan says he would accept a presidential election runoff

9:13pm May 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was locked in a tight election race, with a make-or-break runoff against his chief challenger possible as the final votes were counted.

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Ukraine's currency is being bolstered with financial support from other nations

8:02am May 14, 2023

by Julian Hayda

Financial assistance to Ukraine will help shore up the country's currency, which has maintained strong buying power despite the war.

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address a media conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin early Sunday for talks with German leaders about further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion and rebuild what's been destroyed in the war.

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Ukraine's President Zelenskyy is in Germany for the first time since Russia invaded

7:07am May 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin on his first visit to the country since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Pope Francis meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a private audience at the Vatican on Saturday. Francis recently said that the Vatican has launched a behind-the-scenes initiative to try to end the war in Ukraine.

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President Zelenskyy meets with the pope at the Vatican

1:18pm May 13, 2023

by The Associated Press

The Ukrainian president held talks in Rome, where he received pledges of both open-ended military and financial support as well as stronger backing for Ukraine's aim to join the European Union.