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Turkey Votes 'Yes' To Give More Power to Erdogan

5:38pm April 16, 2017

Turkey's historic constitutional referendum was held to decide whether more power should be concentrated in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On Sunday, the Turkish people voted "yes."

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UNICEF Official Says Children Used By Boko Haram Still Have A Chance

5:38pm April 16, 2017

by Ray Suarez

Patrick Rose, a UNICEF crisis communications specialist, talks about a recent report showing an alarming rise in the number of children being used in bomb attacks by the militant group Boko Haram.

Short Hiatus In War Gives Ukrainians In Donetsk A Chance To Celebrate Easter

5:38pm April 16, 2017

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Easter is one of the few times the 3-year-old war in Eastern Ukraine takes a hiatus. The overnight curfew lifted on Saturday so residents could pray and play all night into Easter Sunday.

Supporters in Istanbul celebrated the historic referendum that consolidates power under the presidency.

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Historic Referendum In Turkey Grants More Power to President

3:20pm April 16, 2017

by Maggie Penman

Yes voters in the Turkish referendum celebrated Sunday, but the opposition promises to contest the vote. Those who voted "yes" hope the change will make the government more efficient.

This dish features a scallop in its shell. Bivalves, like scallops are threatened by rising ocean acidification. Wist left it in the shell, so people would think of it "as an animal and not just a scallop on a plate."

Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas

12:50pm April 16, 2017

by Rhitu Chatterjee

How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."

Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was held for nearly three years without a verdict, in what human rights groups have called an "arbitrary detention."

Cairo Court Drops Child Abuse Charges Against Egyptian-American Woman

11:08am April 16, 2017

by Maggie Penman

Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was acquitted Sunday after being held for nearly three years without a verdict in Cairo. Human Rights Watch has called her case a "travesty of justice."

Easter Bells Ring Out At The Vatican

8:12am April 16, 2017

Easter bells rang out at the Vatican Sunday morning, where Pope Francis celebrated Easter Sunday. In his message at St. Peter's Basilica, he condemned the deadly bombing of a bus convoy in Syria.

A Conservative Roundtable On Trump's Foreign Policy Reversals

8:12am April 16, 2017

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks with David Adesnik of the Foreign Policy Initiative and Scott McConnell of The American Conservative to understand the split beliefs in the Republican party.

Marine Le Pen's skeptic stance on the EU is an unlikely vote-winner in France, and especially near the eastern border where the EU is still popular. But even there Le Pen has some supporters.

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Le Pen Finds Support In Pro-Europe French City

7:59am April 16, 2017

by Eleanor Beardsley

If elected, far right leader Marine Le Pen will hold a referendum to leave the EU, but that's hard to imagine in one of the most pro-Europe corners of France near the German border.

Dr. Thumbi Mwangi, an infectious disease epidemiologist from Kenya, at Howard Theatre in Washington, DC, on Nov. 29, 2016. In the U.S., Mwangi worked on a vaccine for cows that aimed to combat the same disease he saw the bovine battle in Kenya as a kid.

As A Boy, He Learned About Science By Rubbing Calves' Ears

7:00am April 16, 2017

by Erin Ross

Dr. Thumbi Mwangi had a eureka moment when he began researching a cattle disease in the U.S. The treatment was the same thing his dad the farmer had him do when he was growing up in Kenya.