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Boris Johnson And David Davis, Britain's Brexit Minister, Resign

11:35am July 09, 2018

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Two major members of British Prime Minister Theresa May's government have resigned just days after she announced her plan for the UK's exit from the European Union.

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After British Woman Exposed To Nerve Agent Dies, U.K. Wants Answers

6:01am July 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Police say the woman was exposed to Novichok, the same nerve agent that also sickened a former Russian spy and his daughter in March. The U.K. is blaming the Kremlin for the woman's death.

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Emergency workers in Salisbury, England, last week investigated two recent cases of nerve agent exposure. British police say Dawn Sturgess was staying in Salisbury before she showed signs of sickness in nearby Amesbury on June 30. She died Sunday.

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English Woman Exposed To Nerve Agent Dies

7:47pm July 08, 2018

by Clare Lombardo

Dawn Sturgess and a 45-year-old man became sick in Amesbury, England, just miles from the home of the former Russian spy exposed to Novichok in March.

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NATO, The EU And The Future Of Europe

8:44am July 08, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Edward Lucas of the Center For European Policy Analysis about the future of NATO and the European Union.

Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy, is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds

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'I Do This For The Families': The Daunting Task Of Identifying Missing Migrants

5:55pm July 07, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.

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The Deadly Novichok Nerve Agent: What Is It?

8:41pm July 06, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to environmental toxicology professor Alastair Hay about the nerve agent that poisoned two people, four months after it poisoned a former Russian spy and his daughter.

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A firefighter works to extinguish a burning vehicle in Nantes, France, on Tuesday. Days of unrest have plagued the city after a police officer fatally shot a motorist at a checkpoint.

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Nights Of Unrest, Torched Cars, After Fatal Shooting By Police In Nantes, France

7:58pm July 06, 2018

by Amy Held

The police officer, who shot the motorist at a checkpoint on Tuesday, has changed his story about the circumstances of the incident. On Friday he was charged with manslaughter.

GOP Senators Spend Independence Day In Moscow

6:44pm July 06, 2018

A group of Republican senators visited Moscow to deliver a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to meddle in midterm elections. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.).

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Outcry Over Poland's Supreme Court Purge

4:46pm July 06, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum about protests in Poland over the forced retirement of more than a third of the Supreme Court justices.

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U.K.'s Theresa May Orders Retreat To Finalize Brexit Terms

4:25pm July 06, 2018

With less than a year before the U.K. leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May takes her cabinet on a retreat, hoping to agree on a approach to negotiating the terms of Brexit.