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Israel's Shin Bet Detains High-Profile Figures

8:27am August 18, 2018

The Israeli security agency Shin Bet, has been detaining high-profile figures in the past few weeks. One of them is activist and author Moriel Rothman-Zecher, who talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

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Remembering Kofi Annan

8:27am August 18, 2018

Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, has died at age 80. Colum Lynch of Foreign Policy talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

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Former FARC Guerrillas Join Colombia's Congress

8:27am August 18, 2018

by John Otis

In Colombia, 10 former leftist guerrillas who fought in a war are newly-minted members of Congress. For some, the transition from jungle fighters to lawmakers is too soon.

For the past 60 years, Dr. Mahinder Watsa, a Mumbai OB-GYN, has been writing a sex column for the local media. He gets about 100 letters a day. The writers range from teenage girls to men in their 70s.

A 94-Year-Old 'Sexpert' Gives India Advice On You Know What

8:22am August 18, 2018

by Sushmita Pathak

Schools in the conservative country often have no sex ed, and it's a taboo topic at home. That's why Dr. Mahinder Watsa is one of the country's most popular advice columnists.

A reproduction of a poster urging inhabitants, especially mothers and their children, to leave Madrid as Gen. Francisco Franco's troops advanced during the Spanish Civil War. The poster reads "Mothers, protect your children!" and "Evacuate Madrid." In sma

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How Spanish Women Were Allegedly Targeted In 'Stolen Babies' Cases For Decades

8:46pm August 17, 2018

by Lucia Benavides

A secret adoption network started in Spain in the 1930s as a fascist tactic to purge "communist tendencies" from women who defended the republic, say prosecutors and academics.

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U.S. To Pull Back Aid From Syria, Asks Other Countries To Pitch In For Rebuilding

6:01pm August 17, 2018

by Michele Kelemen

The Trump administration is cutting money it was going to spend aiding the people of Raqqa — a Syrian city that still has many areas in rubble after the fight to push out ISIS.

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One Guatemalan Family's Journey To Be Reunited After Being Separated At U.S. Border

4:59pm August 17, 2018

by Farida Jhabvala Romero

Under court order, the government has been working to reunify all children separated from parents at the border, but the biggest challenge has been finding parents already deported.

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People move past a flooded road in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where monsoon rains have destroyed roads and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

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Monsoon Floods Have Killed More Than 320 People In Kerala, India

3:16pm August 17, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

The heavy rainfall has resulted in deadly landslides and flash floods, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

A member of the Myanmar security forces stands guard near a military transport helicopter in Rakhine state last September, about a month into the bloody crackdown on the country's Rohingya Muslim population.

'There Must Be Justice': U.S. Sanctions Myanmar Soldiers For Rohingya Killings

2:49pm August 17, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The sanctions target four mid-level commanders and two units — but they failed to satisfy senators and activists alike, who say the U.S. has a ways to go to hold Myanmar accountable for its crimes.

In the movie Crazy Rich Asians, Princess Intan (Kris Aquino, left) and economist Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) meet at a wedding in Singapore and have a little tete-a-tete about, of all things, microloans.

About That Microloan Mention In 'Crazy Rich Asians' ...

2:40pm August 17, 2018

by Nurith Aizenman

In one scene, Rachel Chu, the fictional lead character in the rom-com, chats with a princess about how small loans are helping women. But do they really?