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The Legacy Of Hosni Mubarak And The Arab Spring

6:30pm February 25, 2020

Michele Dunne, Middle East program director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the late Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and the Arab Spring.

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Trump Ends India Visit With Arms Deal And Press Conference

5:23pm February 25, 2020

by Lauren Frayer

President Trump wrapped up his final day in India with meetings with Indian leaders in New Delhi and a press conference.

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An American Teacher Stuck In Wuhan Comments On Coronavirus Confinement

4:30pm February 25, 2020

Meg Stewart is a 22-year-old American teacher who is stuck in Wuhan, China due to the coronavirus lockdown. She didn't get out when other Americans were evacuated.

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Freed Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee stands next to a placard with a picture of bookseller Gui Minhai, in front of his book store in Hong Kong in June 2016.

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Hong Kong Bookseller Sentenced By China To 10 Years For Passing 'Intelligence'

1:15pm February 25, 2020

by Emily Feng

Gui Minhai was kidnapped by Chinese agents while on vacation in Thailand in 2015. His conviction in a secret trial was announced in a brief statement by the court.

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Military Offensive In Syria's Idlib Province Creates Humanitarian Crisis

12:16pm February 25, 2020

NPR's Noel King talks to Mark Lowcock, U.N. under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination, about what renewed fighting in northwest Syria has done to civilians.

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Sell Or Stay? Australia's Fire Zone Experiment

11:33am February 25, 2020

After deadly 2009 wildfires, authorities offered to buy property to encourage people to move. Few accepted. The questions raised by Australia's experience are freshly urgent after its latest fires.

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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was a supporter of Israel and took a hard line against terrorism, but eventually U.S. administrations began to pressure the Egyptian leader over human-rights abuses.

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Mubarak, Egypt's Ousted President, Is Dead At 91

10:44am February 25, 2020

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

For many Egyptians, Mubarak became the symbol of all that was wrong with their country. His nearly 30-year rule is recalled as a time of repression and economic stagnation for all but an elite few.

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President Trump speaks Tuesday with business leaders in New Delhi.

Trump Says Sotomayor, Ginsburg Should Recuse Themselves From Cases Involving Him

9:31am February 25, 2020

by Krishnadev Calamur

The president's remarks are an apparent reference to a dissent by Justice Sotomayor, who wrote that the government had claimed "one emergency after another" to seek an "unprecedented number" of stays.

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China Sentences Hong Kong Bookseller To 10 Years In Jail

7:22am February 25, 2020

by Emily Feng

A publisher of political texts, who disappeared in China more than two years ago, has been sentenced to a decade in a Chinese prison for illegally passing intelligence to unspecified people overseas.

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No Trade Deal Was Announced On Day 2 Of Trump's India Trip

6:47am February 25, 2020

by Lauren Frayer

The U.S. and India enjoy a robust trading relationship, totaling more than $142 billion as of 2018, but as that relationship has grown, so too have the tensions between them.

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