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Animal Carcasses In Israel May Reveal Climate Change Clues

11:07am November 28, 2017

by Daniel Estrin

Researchers in Israel are collecting dead animals to stock a collection showing how climate change affects different species. Some will be stuffed and kept in a museum that resembles Noah's Ark.

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In Iraq, Kirkuk Residents Nervous As Power Turns Over Again

4:38pm November 27, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Power has shifted again in one of Iraq's most ancient and pivotal cities — Kirkuk. Kurds have recently been on top there but now Arab leaders are in charge and residents are tense as they look ahead.

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A ship carrying food aid docks at the port of the Yemeni coastal city of Hodeidah on Sunday.

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Aid Begins To Filter Back Into Yemen, As Saudi-Led Blockade Eases

12:31pm November 27, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Badly needed shipments of food and vaccines have arrived at some Yemeni air- and seaports, which have been closed for about three weeks by the Saudis in retaliation for an attempted missile strike.

Women in Yemen protest outside the office of the country's High Commissioner for Human rights.

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In Yemen, Mothers Of Detained Won't Stop Protests Till Their Sons Are Freed

11:15am November 27, 2017

by Ruth Sherlock

Mothers of detained journalists and activists in Yemen are protesting in public and seeking out international help.

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Understanding Sufism And The Sinai Peninsula

7:57am November 26, 2017

More than 300 people are dead after an attack on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Sahar Aziz of Rutgers Law School about why militants would attack a Sufi mosque.

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Attack On Egypt Mosque Kills More Than 300

6:42pm November 25, 2017

At least 305 people died in an attack on a Sufi mosque in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Al Jazeera's Washington bureau chief Abderrahim Foukara about the attack on civilians.

Sulieman Awad receives medical treatment at the Suez Canal University hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, a day after he was injured during an attack on a mosque. Militants attacked a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in the Sinai Peninsula, setting off explo

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Egyptian Military Launches Airstrikes In Retaliation For Gruesome Mosque Attack

1:08pm November 25, 2017

by Miles Parks

The government says 305 people were killed Friday, in the deadliest attack in the country's modern history. A Muslim movement that ISIS views as heresy seems to have been the target.

Kawkab walks with a social worker in the Dabaga camp for displaced Iraqis. Kawkab says she was seven or eight when she saw ISIS militants shoot her mother dead. "They shot her with an assault rifle," she says. "They shot her and she died and they threw he

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Traumatized And Vulnerable To Abuse, Orphans From Mosul Are 'Living In Another World'

9:00am November 25, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Thousands of Iraqi children lost one or both parents during fighting in Mosul. "They are sad and isolated. Most of the time, they have few friends and they don't trust anyone," says a social worker.

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More Than 300 Killed In Attack On Egyptian Mosque

8:00am November 25, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Egypt is in mourning after the most deadly attack since ISIS started operating in the northern Sinai. Friday's bombing and gun attack on a mosque killed more than 300 people.

Members of the band Hawa Dafi at cafe in Majdal Shams where they performed the previous night.

On The Syrian Border, Alternative Arabic Music Brews

8:00am November 25, 2017

by Daniel Estrin

The Israeli-held Golan Heights, located right next to a civil war, has become an incubator for an experimental Arabic music scene.