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Hundreds Of Chechens Join ISIS, Including Group's No. 2 Leader

10:58am September 05, 2014

Rebels from Chechnya have joined ranks with other jihadists in ISIS. David Greene talks to Gordan Hahn, author of Russia's Islamic Threat and an analyst for the Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation.

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Students Mistakenly Given Answers To Exam

10:58am September 05, 2014

Instead of blank sheets, the students in Austria were given the version meant for professors to use to grade them.The students now have the pleasure of being re-tested next month.

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An aid worker takes a break on a big pile of food, which was brought to the small eastern Ukrainian city of Starobilsk by a humanitarian convoy.

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Aid Is On The Way For Eastern Ukraine, If Only It Can Pass The Checkpoints

8:38am September 04, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Both Ukraine and Russia say they're trying to send supplies to residents in eastern Ukraine. But with tensions on both sides running high, that aid may take a while to arrive.

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Legal Troubles Dog Famed Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava

7:43am September 04, 2014

by Lauren Frayer

A Spanish court named Calatrava, designer of New York's Ground Zero transport hub, a suspect in alleged contract fraud. Prosecutors say he got $3.6 million for a convention center that wasn't built.

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Europeans throw away 90 million tons of food each year, including these vegetables pulled from waste bins of an organic supermarket in Berlin. A new German website aims to connect surplus food with people who want it.

Got Leftovers To Share? In Germany, There's A Website For That

4:26pm September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Europeans throw away about 90 million tons of food each year. A new German website aims to ratchet that number down a bit by connecting people with leftovers to spare with people who could use them.

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Ukraine Announces Cease-Fire With Russia

8:22am September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Ukraine's president says he and Russian President Putin have agreed to a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. Putin's spokesman says since Russia isn't a party to the conflict it can't agree to a ceasefire.

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Why The British Allowed The Rotherham Abuse To Fester

12:33pm August 30, 2014

The Guardian's Randeep Ramesh tells NPR's Scott Simon about the social and societal forces at work in British culture which might have contributed to the cover-up of the Rotherham child abuse case.

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Russia Moves More Troops Across Ukraine Border, NATO Says

10:22am August 29, 2014

David Greene talks to Alexander Vershbow, deputy secretary general of NATO, about Russian military advances into Ukraine. The NATO-Ukraine Commission held an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday.

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Moral To This Story: Don't Lie About Being Kidnapped

7:15am August 27, 2014

A British man who was at a party called his girlfriend to stay he couldn't come home because he had been kidnapped. She called police, and they fined him after they found him still at the party.

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Kiev Claims Russia Has Sights Set On New Eastern Ukrainian City

8:07pm August 26, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Ukraine has accused Russia of trying to open a new front in the war between the government and pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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