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Displaced Iraqis In Mosul Look Forward To Reuniting With Relatives

6:26am November 15, 2016

by Alice Fordham

As families flee from the ISIS-held areas around the Iraqi city of Mosul, they're put in detention. Relatives who were displaced long ago crowd the other side of the fence trying to visit with them.

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Greece Welcomes Obama On Final Presidential Foreign Trip

6:04am November 15, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

President Obama is making his first official visit to Greece. He'll also visit Germany and Peru. Obama says he will reassure U.S. allies that President-elect Donald Trump remains committed to them.

Police officers are surrounded by media as they stand outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on Monday, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was set to be questioned over a rape allegation against him.

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Prosecutors Question Julian Assange Over Sex-Crime Accusations

7:49pm November 14, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The WikiLeaks founder has spent years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, to avoid extradition for questioning over alleged sexual misconduct. Now he's taking questions after all — at the embassy.

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In 'Judas,' Amos Oz Explores Different Roads For Israel

6:19pm November 14, 2016

by NPR Staff

Oz's latest is set in Jerusalem in 1959, and centers on three people with vastly different views of Israel, life and the world — who gradually argue themselves into friendship, and even love.

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The U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo holds the U.S. prison known as "Gitmo." President Obama said when he took office in 2009 that he wanted to close the prison, but 60 prisoners remain.

Trump Has Vowed To Fill Guantanamo With 'Some Bad Dudes' — But Who?

6:19pm November 14, 2016

by David Welna

President Obama promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo. President-elect Trump has said he'll keep it open, though only 60 prisoners are there today.

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The flood-swollen Tawi River rages past the city of Jammu in northern India in 2014.

Report: Disasters Are Even More Disastrous Than We Think

5:03pm November 14, 2016

by Angus Chen

When damage from floods and earthquakes is tallied, the emphasis is on lost property and possessions. The poor face another, even more devastating kind of loss.

The vaginal ring is made of silicone, it's flexible and it continuously releases the anti-HIV drug dapivirine.

Experimental Vaginal Ring Fights HIV But Will Women Wear It?

2:19pm November 14, 2016

by Vicky Hallett

It's a problem with many of the anti-HIV options. Even if they're proven to be effective, people don't always want to use them.

Two Chinese J-10 aircraft cross each other during a military exercise in 2015.

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Questions About China's Military Training After Female Fighter Pilot Dies

12:58pm November 14, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Yu Xu was a member of the Chinese air force's elite aerobatics team, and was the first woman to fly China's J-10 fighter jet. She died in a training accident over the weekend.

An aerial photo taken Monday shows earthquake damage to State Highway One near Ohau Point in New Zealand, a day after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed two people and caused massive infrastructure damage.

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After Powerful Quake, Tourists, Residents (And Cows) Stranded In New Zealand

12:39pm November 14, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

At least two people died in Sunday's powerful quake, which has been followed by a series of aftershocks. Highways and railroads are destroyed; military aircraft are preparing to drop supplies.

Freedom House reviews restrictions to Internet access and how it's used around the world, weighing whether countries are free, partly free or not free in terms of Internet freedom.

Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps

11:55am November 14, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Apps like WhatsApp and Telegram are the latest to face crackdowns, a new report says. Two-thirds of Internet users live in countries that censor criticism of the government, military or rulers.