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The U.S. and Israel's relationship is at a contentious balancing point

8:48am March 30, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Princeton Professor Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, about how the relationship between the U.S. and Israel has changed with the war in Gaza.

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These Israeli military veterans are against Gaza occupation

8:02am March 30, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

A group of Israeli military veterans say they know the reality behind their country's occupation of Palestinian territories, and want it to stop.

Farmers encircle EU headquarters in tractors to protest agricultural policies

8:02am March 30, 2024

by Teri Schultz

European farmers have staged several protests against agricultural policies recently, the most recent one in Brussels featuring fireworks and liquid manure.

A view of the Hong Kong skyline is pictured before the lights were turned off to mark the Earth Hour environmental campaign on March 25, 2023.

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Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong operation over safety concerns for its staff

7:12am March 30, 2024

U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia is closing its Hong Kong operation after the city enacted a tough new national security law known locally as Article 23.

A group gathering in Qaryut village southeast of Nablus, West Bank, on March 15, 2015, plant an olive tree as they mark the 12th anniversary of the death of U.S. activist Rachel Corrie, who died when she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003.

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21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie

5:01am March 30, 2024

by Jane Arraf

The 23-year-old was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer as she protested the demolition of homes in Gaza in 2003. Her memory remains cherished among Palestinians, including the family she lived with.

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In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme.

Mercy me: Photos show what humans have done to the planet in the Anthropocene age

9:31pm March 29, 2024

Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.

People walk by a poster to promote the movie Oppenheimer on Friday in Tokyo.

'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

7:27pm March 29, 2024

by Anthony Kuhn

The film's release in Japan, more than eight months after it opened in the U.S., had been watched with trepidation because of the sensitivity of the subject matter.

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Moscow's hostage game with Evan Gershkovich and the U.S. diplomats trying to free him

4:33pm March 29, 2024

by Jackie Northam

Evan Gershkovich, the journalist who's been detained in Russia for a year, has become a pawn in a larger game of prisoner swaps. The U.S. has created a special office to deal with hostage diplomacy.

Why the U.S. is absent from international seabed mining talks

4:33pm March 29, 2024

by Dan Ackerman

In Jamaica, international negotiations are underway over how to govern the mining of precious metals that can help fuel renewable technologies. But the U.S. isn't at the negotiating table.

Maynor Suazo Sandoval (right) and his mother visiting the Niagara Falls, in New York state.

'A generous man': Baltimore bridge worker helped family, community in Honduras

4:31pm March 29, 2024

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras when he was 20 and built a new life in the U.S. He is one of the missing workers from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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