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Morning News Brief: Trump In Paris, GOP Wrangles Over Health Care, Turkey Coup Anniversary

4:57am July 14, 2017

President Trump celebrates Bastille Day in Paris while Republicans in Washington pore over a revised health care plan. And it's one year since an attempted coup in Turkey.

Meet Anatoly Antonov, Set To Be Russia's Next Ambassador To U.S.

4:57am July 14, 2017

by Lucian Kim

When President Trump and Vladimir Putin met during the recent G20 summit, they agreed to speed up the appointment of new ambassadors to each other's capitals.

Ticks of the genus Hyalomma, pictured here, are principally responsible for passing on Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever to humans.

How Did Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Pop Up In Spain?

7:49pm July 13, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

The Ebola-like virus is found mainly in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

After twice being denied visas, a team of Afghan girls, who stopped for a photo at Herat International Airport in western Afghanistan on Thursday, has been permitted to travel to the U.S. for a robotics competition.

Afghan Girls Robotics Team Allowed To Enter U.S. For Competition

6:50pm July 13, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

President Trump intervened to find a way to permit the girls entry after their applications for visas were twice rejected. For the budding scientists, the path to compete has been a long one.

A protester cries as he mourns jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Thursday. Officials say China's most prominent political prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaob

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Tears And Anger: World Responds To Death Of Chinese Dissident

5:59pm July 13, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with liver cancer this year and died Thursday, partway through a prison sentence. Beijing did not allow him to travel abroad for treatment.

President Trump has joined French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to celebrate Bastille Day.

In Paris, Trump Defends Son's Meeting With Russian Lawyer

5:49pm July 13, 2017

by Brian Naylor

The president said that the June 2016 meeting was very standard and that politics "is not the nicest business."

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Victim Of Turkish Government Crackdown Reflects On Year Since Coup Attempt

5:27pm July 13, 2017

by Peter Kenyon

Turkey is marking the one-year anniversary this week of an attempted coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. NPR has the story of one victim of the Turkish government's sweeping crackdown after last year's attempted coup.

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Businessman Bill Browder Details Dealings With Russian Laywer Tied To Trump

5:27pm July 13, 2017

Few people heard of Natalia Veselnitskaya before this week. William Browder was one. He's locked horns with the Russian lawyer at the heart of the Donald Trump Jr. email scandal.

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Chinese Dissident And Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies At 61

4:35pm July 13, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died from cancer at age 61. He was serving a jail term for trying to overthrow China's government.

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At Least 12 People Killed In Cameroon Suicide Bombing

3:51pm July 13, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

More than 40 others were injured in the attack, which targeted a small town on the border with Nigeria. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the bombing bears hallmarks of Boko Haram.