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Millions At Risk Of Starvation And Most Americans Don't Know

8:08am July 22, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks with David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee about near-famine conditions in Africa and the Middle East, and what Americans know about the crises.

Sharing Resources Across Countries To Fight Wildfires

8:08am July 22, 2017

Fires are burning in British Columbia. Scott Simon talks to Alan Goodwin of the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council, a program that shares firefighters with other countries.

After Otto Warmbier's Death, U.S. Plans To Ban Travel To North Korea

11:08pm July 21, 2017

by Michele Kelemen

The move comes after the death of American Otto Warmbier, who spent a year and a half in a North Korean jail only to return home in a coma.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions as he was sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in June. He testified that suggestions that he colluded with Russia to interfere in the U.S. presidential election was a "contemptible lie."

U.S. Intercepts Reportedly Contradict Attorney General On Russia Contacts

9:01pm July 21, 2017

The Washington Post reports that spy agencies intercepted conversations with Russia's U.S. ambassador suggesting he and Jeff Sessions discussed campaign matters during mid-2016 meetings.

Ali Charaf Damache, known as "Black Flag," arrives at the courthouse in Waterford, Ireland, in 2010. Damache appeared in a Philadelphia federal courtroom Friday on terrorism-related charges.

Al-Qaida Suspect Appears In Federal Court In Pennsylvania

6:10pm July 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Ali Charaf Damache is the first terrorism-related suspect to be sent to the U.S. since President Trump took office.

3 Palestinians Killed In Violent Clashes With Israelis Near Jerusalem Religious Site

5:48pm July 21, 2017

by Daniel Estrin

In a day of intensifying violence, three Palestinians were killed during a wave of clashes with Israeli forces. Later a Palestinian stabbed to death three Israelis in a West Bank Jewish settlement.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a Cabinet meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Wednesday.

In Putin's Russia, An 'Adhocracy' Marked By Ambiguity And Plausible Deniability

5:02pm July 21, 2017

by Lucian Kim

Donald Trump Jr. found his meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya a waste of time, but her approach fits into a larger pattern of freelance political activity that has come to characterize Putin's Russia.

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Iraqi Kurds Schedule Independence Referendum For September

4:27pm July 21, 2017

In September, Iraqi Kurds have scheduled an independence referendum. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group about the prospects for Kurdish independence.

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Rwanda Works To Ban Sale Of Second Hand Clothes Within 2 Years

4:27pm July 21, 2017

by Eyder Peralta

Rwanda is pushing through a plan to ban second hand clothes within two years. The government says it's about "dignity," but the plan threatens trade with the U.S. and a central part of poor people's lives.

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Salvador Dalí's Remains Exhumed, Revealing A Perfectly Arranged Mustache

3:47pm July 21, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

When the late Spanish painter was exhumed for a paternity suit, experts discovered his distinctive mustache had kept its shape. "Checking it was a very exciting moment," says the head of his estate.