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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seen in Algiers on Dec. 2, 2018 — exactly two months after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and was never heard from again.

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U.N. Report Implicates Saudi Crown Prince In Killing Of Jamal Khashoggi

10:53pm June 19, 2019

by Jackie Northam

After a five-month probe of Khashoggi's death, a special U.N. investigator concluded it was "inconceivable that an operation of this scale could be implemented without the Crown Prince being aware."

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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó Faces A Corruption Scandal Of His Own

5:43pm June 19, 2019

by Philip Reeves

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is under scrutiny over allegations that two of his representatives in neighboring Colombia misappropriated money meant to support Venezuelan security forces.

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U.N. Report Calls For International Investigation Of Jamal Khashoggi's Killing

5:29pm June 19, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Agnes Callamard, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at the human rights office, about her report on Jamal Khashoggi's death.

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5 Years After Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Was Shot Down, Charges Have Been Filed

4:39pm June 19, 2019

by Teri Schultz

Dutch prosecutors have charged three Russians and a Ukrainian with the murder of nearly 300 passengers and crew, who died when Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July 2014.

Robert Menasse Looks At The People Who Make the European Union Run In 'The Capital'

4:39pm June 19, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Austrian novelist Robert Menasse about his new book, an absurdist comic tragedy called The Capital, for which he embedded with European Union civil servants in Brussels.

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U.N. Refugee Agency Says Nearly 71 Million People Were Displaced In 2018

4:39pm June 19, 2019

by Eyder Peralta

The United Nations refugee agency says nearly 71 million people were officially displaced in 2018, the highest number since World War II. Ethiopia topped the list with 1.5 million people.

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Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017.

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Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide As Of 2018, U.N. Report Says

3:25pm June 19, 2019

by Ashley Westerman

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

Jeelan, 11, the day after being rescued from an ISIS family who had held her captive for the past two years. She says she doesn't remember her Yazidi family. "I want to go back to Um Ali," she says, referring to the Iraqi woman who had been pretending to

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'I Want To Go Back': The Yazidi Girls Who Did Not Want To Be Rescued From ISIS

12:56pm June 19, 2019

by Jane Arraf

The girls, ages 10 and 11, were held captive for years and remember nothing of their Yazidi heritage. They miss the ISIS woman who looked after them and tell rescuers they want to return to her.

Diamond brooch with five different cuts of diamonds (left), Shah Jahan's dagger and The Mirror of Paradise is a 52.58-carat diamond ring are part of an auction expected to fetch more than $115 million.

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Tipu Sultan's Magic Box, Shah Jahan's Jade Dagger: Stunning Jewels Up For Auction

12:15pm June 19, 2019

A collection of Indian gems, jewelry and artifacts is expected to fetch more than $115 million — which would break a record set by Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection.

Protesters demonstrate outside the Chief Executive Office on Monday in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong's Leader Backpedaled, But Here's Why The Opposition Movement Continues

11:36am June 19, 2019

by Anthony Kuhn

Under a "one country, two systems" policy, Hong Kong is connected to China but with its own legal protections. Protesters view the extradition bill as a threat to that arrangement.