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'Surveillance State' explores China's tech and social media control systems

5:42am September 07, 2022

by Emily Feng

Veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin spent years covering China. In a new book, they untangle how China built its formidable digital surveillance apparatus.

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U.N. calls for demilitarized zone around nuclear plant in Ukraine

4:55pm September 06, 2022

The United Nations is calling for a demilitarized zone around a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.

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Liz Truss officially takes over as the U.K.'s prime minister

4:55pm September 06, 2022

by Willem Marx

Liz Truss is Britain's fourth prime minister in six years, and the third woman to take on the role. She succeeded Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader on Monday.

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What's next for Chile after voters rejected a new constitution

4:23pm September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Antonia Laborde, a reporter for El País in Santiago de Chile after voters in the country rejected a new constitution. Now the country must consider a new path forward.

Large numbers of workers from different sectors protest against inflation and in favor of higher wages in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 17, where inflation has soared.

An economic perfect storm is battering emerging markets. Debt crises loom

4:23pm September 06, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

With a strengthening dollar and rising commodity prices, developing nations are having a hard time paying their debts.

At 10th anniversary of Benghazi attack, former diplomat offers context in new book

2:49pm September 06, 2022

by Caitlyn Kim

Ethan Chorin, who served in Libya, presents details that most Americans don't know about the embassy attack — and explores the role domestic politics played in the aftermath.

Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss on Tuesday during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where the monarch invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party to become prime minister and form a new government.

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Liz Truss is now officially the U.K.'s prime minister after meeting with the queen

11:50am September 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Truss became prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix the health care system.

This is Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss, who goes by @trussliz on Twitter. It isn't Liz Trussell, aka @LizTruss, but Trussell will play along if you mistake her for the other one.

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Stop tweeting @liztruss your congratulatory messages. That's not Britain's new PM

11:01am September 06, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Many constituents and politicians have reached out to Britain's new prime minister on Twitter — or so they thought. Many actually tagged the account of Liz Trussell, who's been having fun with it.

Untitled, 2021. Self-portrait of Adeolu Osibodu.

A skateboarding accident led this photographer to find his passion

6:34am September 06, 2022

Photographer Adeolu Osibodu takes you on a journey through space and time as he navigates reality, traversing sky, land and sea.

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A suspect is found dead, the other is at large, following a mass stabbing in Canada

5:05am September 06, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mickey Djuric of the Canadian Press, about a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ten people are dead and 18 were injured.