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U.S. Aims To Stall China's Efforts To Be The Global Leader In The Race For 5G

5:59am December 19, 2018

by Jackie Northam

The Trump administration is expected to crack down on Chinese hacking in a bid to curb Beijing's effort to be a world leader in advanced technologies by 2025.

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News Brief: Justice Bill, Migrants' Release, Pyongyang Cheats Sanctions

5:59am December 19, 2018

Senate approves bipartisan criminal justice bill. Several thousand migrant children in U.S. custody could be released soon. Open scientific collaboration may be helping North Korea cheat on sanctions.

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Members of the Tovar family, recent Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad. Eleven of them live in a cramped two-bedroom house in the Trinidadian town of Couva.

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Trinidad Faces Humanitarian Crisis As More Venezuelans Come For Refuge

9:50pm December 18, 2018

by John Otis

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled to the Caribbean country in recent years. Now Trinidad's government is adopting a harder line toward the newcomers.

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Nheb Thai, a Cambodian refugee who was deported from the U.S., serves a meal to other deportees in Battambang last year. Cambodia has taken in 566 deportees since inking a 2002 pact with the U.S. that opened the door for hundreds with criminal records to

U.S. Deports Dozens More Cambodian Immigrants, Some For Decades-Old Crimes

8:22pm December 18, 2018

Many were granted refugee status after fleeing U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War and the massacres of the Khmer Rouge, and know little about the country where they're being forced to return.

A woman walks down the main road in the village of Luvungi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2010, Hutu rebels and local militias raped more than 280 women and children as punishment for the villagers' alleged support of the Congolese Defense Fo

Nobel Winner Wants To Start Fund For Women Sexually Assaulted In Conflict

4:42pm December 18, 2018

by Diane Cole

Accepting the peace prize, Dr. Denis Mukwege called for a global fund to compensate survivors of sexual violence. He's already laying the groundwork, but challenges loom.

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Minorities In Chinese Internment Camps Forced To Sew Clothes for U.S. Brand

4:25pm December 18, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the AP's Dake Kang about his reporting that minorities in Chinese internment camps are being forced to perform menial labor, including sewing clothes for a U.S. sports brand.

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Brookings Institution Senior Fellow On Michael Flynn's Contacts With Turkey

4:25pm December 18, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Ömer Taspinar of the Brookings Institution about former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn's contacts with Turkey and attempts to extradite Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen.

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The Kuzma Minin was grounded Tuesday morning a few hundred feet from a British beach. Smaller boats were eventually able to help pull it free.

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Russian Cargo Ship Runs Aground In U.K.

3:24pm December 18, 2018

by Ian Stewart

The 600-foot long ship was stranded just a few hundred feet from shore. Curious onlookers gathered onshore to watch rescue operations near the English city of Falmouth.

Anti-Brexit activists protest outside Parliament Dec. 11.

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A 2nd Brexit Referendum Once Seemed Unthinkable. Now Support Is Growing

3:09pm December 18, 2018

A new poll shows more than half of Britons would support holding another Brexit referendum. Prime Minister Theresa May warned a new vote would "do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics."

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Journalists light candles in Siliguri, India, on May 3, during a vigil for Afghan journalists who were killed in a targeted suicide bombing in Kabul on April 30.

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Violence Against Journalists Reached 'Unprecedented Levels' In 2018, Report Finds

3:08pm December 18, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Every year, Reporters Without Borders investigates how many journalists were killed, imprisoned or held hostage. In 2018, the group saw an increase in every category.