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At Munich Meeting, Kerry To Push For Cease-Fire In Syria

9:57am February 11, 2016

by Michele Kelemen

Efforts to end a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian regime now turn to a diplomatic showdown between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart at a meeting in Munich.

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Global Markets Are Tanking. Why, And What's To Come?

9:48am February 11, 2016

David Greene talks with David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution about the causes and effects of the ongoing slide in global markets.

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Members of Indian Youth Congress — a wing of the National Congress party — and National Students Union of India protest for Internet freedom in April 2015 in New Delhi.

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Should India's Internet Be Free Of Charge, Or Free Of Control?

9:10am February 11, 2016

by Julie McCarthy

Facebook's free Internet service was banned in India on the basis of net neutrality this week. Internet providers, regulators say, should not be allowed "to shape the users' Internet experience."

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Sunni imam Aziz Babaei, in his prayer room in Tehran, has been telling other Iranian Sunnis to be careful. One radical act, he warns, could bring pain on the whole community.

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The Precarious Existence Of Iran's Sunni Muslims

5:00am February 11, 2016

by Steve Inskeep

Shiite-majority Iran is home to millions of Sunnis, including the Sunni imam who opened his door to NPR's Steve Inskeep in Tehran. "We live together nicely," he insists. But he must speak with care.

As members of the local Muslim community, Summer Hamad and her daughter Marjan Hamad were personally affected by the murder of three young Muslim-Americans in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Feb. 10th, 2015. After the shootings, they both decided to begin wearing th

Muslim Community Remembers Chapel Hill Victims

11:45pm February 10, 2016

by Reema Khrais

A year after a gunman killed 3 young Muslim-Americans in North Carolina, many in the local Muslim community has responded by being more vocal and visible around issues of faith.

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Harry Potter Fans Rejoice! New Book From The Wizarding World Coming This Summer

11:17pm February 10, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The book, called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II picks up the story of Harry and co. where the series epilogue left off. It will comprise the script of a play of the same name.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter Convenes Anti-ISIS Coalition Partners In Brussels

8:08pm February 10, 2016

by David Welna

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is convening his counterparts from more than two dozen anti-ISIS coalition partners in Brussels on Thursday. Carter aims to goad them into stepping up their contributions to the war on ISIS. But the meeting coincides with what Sunni Arab partners consider a far greater threat in Syria: a Russian-Iranian-Assad offensive on the verge of recapturing Aleppo from rebels.

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This Mosquito Likes Us Too Much For Our Own Good

6:24pm February 10, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

Meet Aedes aegypti. It's an ideal spreader of disease — from its attraction to trash to its habit of sipping blood from lots of folks in one feeding spree.

Fake passports and the tools used to make them are displayed at the immigration bureau in Bangkok on Wednesday after Thai police broke up a major fake passport ring led by an Iranian known as "The Doctor."

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Thai Police Nab Mysterious Master Forger Known As 'The Doctor'

6:07pm February 10, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The arrest ends a long hunt for an elusive passport forger, who is accused of sending thousands of phony documents to Middle Eastern clients wanting to travel to Europe.

Students take part in a protest at the University of Hong Kong on Jan. 20. They protested after a pro-Beijing official was appointed to a senior role, amid growing worry over increasing political interference in academia.

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In Hong Kong, A Tussle Over Academic Freedom

5:42pm February 10, 2016

by Anthony Kuhn

Students at the University of Hong Kong protested last month, saying university governance is subject to political interference from Beijing.

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