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Haiti gang has released 2 of the 17 foreign Christian missionaries they kidnapped

5:20pm November 22, 2021

by Carrie Kahn

Gang members in Haiti released two of the 17 foreign missionaries they've been holding for more than a month. The move comes as police in Haiti are cracking down on the gangs.

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Austria enters lockdown as COVID infections rise

5:20pm November 22, 2021

Austria has become the first European country to instate a vaccine mandate. Monday, it was the first to initiate a nation-wide lockdown during this surge, despite protests against the restrictions.

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Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai was thought to have been missing since the beginning of November after making sexual assault allegations against China's former vice premier on social media.

In a video call, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympics officials she's safe

8:28pm November 21, 2021

by Dustin Jones

Despite a video call between Peng Shuai and members of the Olympic Committee along with video of her attending events over the weekend, some remain concerned for the athlete's wellbeing.

A man walks in front of a fire in a street of The Hague during a demonstration against the Dutch government's coronavirus measures on November 20, 2021.

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Protests have broken out across Europe in response to tightened COVID-19 restrictions

3:08pm November 21, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

In The Netherlands, Austria, France, Belgium, and other countries, protestors are clashing with police in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions.

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The Taliban give back some rights to women, but it may be all a political strategy

8:02am November 21, 2021

Leila Fadel speaks to TRT World Correspondent Soraya Lennie about the latest developments in Afghanistan on the rights of girls and women to return to school.

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Iran and U.S. are trying to renegotiate nuclear deal

9:56am November 20, 2021

Scott Simon speaks to Vali Nasr, professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, about the latest moves to save the nuclear deal with Iran.

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In this image taken from video, demonstrators protest against government restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic on Friday in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Dutch police open fire on rioters in demonstration against COVID restrictions

9:53am November 20, 2021

by The Associated Press

It was one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the Netherlands since coronavirus restrictions were first imposed last year. Police arrested 51 people in Rotterdam.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his Africa tour

9:26am November 20, 2021

by Michele Kelemen

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his Africa tour in Senegal at a very tense time in the region. There's a civil war in Ethiopia and military coup in Sudan.

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Nyayua Thang, 62, left, stands waist-deep in the floodwaters in front of an abandoned primary school in South Sudan. Members of her village, displaced by extreme flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, are using the building as a refuge. Only small mud di

Prize-winning photos capture the grit and suffering of flood survivors in South Sudan

7:00am November 20, 2021

by Diane Cole

The photo series Unyielding Floods recently won its fifth award this year. It captures the strength and hardship of those affected by flooding of biblical proportions in South Sudan.

Two boys stand at the edge of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in July. A recent study finds that globally, boys and young men made up two-thirds of all deaths among young people in 2019.

Research sheds light on what's killing young people, especially boys and young men

5:45pm November 19, 2021

by Joanne Silberner

Globally, boys and young men made up two-thirds of all deaths among young people in 2019. A recent report finds that many such deaths in this "neglected" age group are preventable.