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People gather their belongings Friday as they leave a refugee camp because of an Islamic State offensive near Azaz, Syria.

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Doctors Without Borders Evacuating Key Syrian Hospital Amid ISIS Offensive

1:27pm May 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

ISIS reportedly has seized villages near Syria's border with Turkey, trapping tens of thousands of civilians. The evacuated hospital outside Azaz is the aid group's largest medical facility in Syria.

Kala Tanaka marks "stays" at the front of the canoe so they can go back in the same place after the mast is taken down to fit under the George Washington Bridge. The garlands of ti leaves, a Hawaiian tradition, were placed on the Hokule'a by well-wishers.

Hokule'a, The Hawaiian Canoe Traveling The World By A Map Of The Stars

9:37am May 27, 2016

by Sara Kehaulani Goo

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

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Kikue Takagi, left, narrowly survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing as a schoolgirl. She's now 83. Her second cousin is U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, a Democrat from southern California. His grandparents and parents were all placed in U.S. internment camps in Wor

A Survivor's Tale: How Hiroshima Shaped A Japanese-American Family

9:21am May 27, 2016

by Greg Myre

Kikue Takagi narrowly survived the atomic bomb that killed her classmates. Soon after she moved to California, where she worked for many years at Disneyland. Now in her 80s, she's back in Hiroshima.

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A First By A Sitting U.S. President: Obama Goes to Hiroshima

7:50am May 27, 2016

Hiroshima was destroyed in the first atomic bomb attack. Morning Edition talks to NPR's Scott Horsley and Elise Hu and Sheila Smith, expert in Japanese politics with the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Obama Visits Hiroshima, Which Symbolizes Atomic Age Horrors

7:49am May 27, 2016

Morning Edition talks to NPR's Scott Horsley and Elise Hu, Sheila Smith of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rep. Mark Takano of California and Kikue Takagi who survived the attack on Hiroshima.

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Refugee Crisis Is A Hot-Button Issue For EU Voters

6:45am May 27, 2016

Across Europe there seems to be a rejection of mainstream parties with a rush of migrants. Renee Montagne talks to Norbert Rottgen, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of Germany's Parliament.

Hockey Night In Canada Punjabi Edition

6:05am May 27, 2016

David Greene talks to Harnarayan Singh, play-by-play voice for Hockey Night In Canada Punjabi Edition. Singh's dramatic calls have won him fans even beyond Canada's large Punjabi speaking minority.

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Hiroshima Survivor Recalls Bombing In Fight To Achieve Nuclear Disarmament

7:59pm May 26, 2016

On Aug. 6, 1945, Setsuko Thurlow was a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan. Thurlow survived the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima that day and has since become an activist for nuclear disarmament. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Thurlow about her experience and her reaction to President Obama's visit to Hiroshima.

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'High Highs And Deep Lows': 5 Days With Doctors Without Borders In South Sudan

6:10pm May 26, 2016

In the past year, dozens of hospitals run by the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, have been attacked. NPR spends a week with two doctors in a hospital inside an enormous refugee camp in South Sudan to find out why they work in dangerous places, and what the work is like.

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Father And Daughter Circumnavigate The Globe Using A Mental Compass

5:26pm May 26, 2016

by Adam Cole

Hokule'a — a voyaging canoe based on ancient Polynesian craft — is travelling around the world. Its navigators have learned to traverse the open ocean relying the sun, stars, and waves.

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