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Al-Qaida Says Its No. 2 Leader Was Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

2:09pm June 16, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Nasir al-Wahishi was part of al-Qaida's "old guard," NPR's Alice Fordham reports. He was a veteran of the fighting in Afghanistan and had been Osama bin Laden's personal secretary.

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Ramadi, Iraq, Offensive Delays Efforts To Take Back Mosul

12:45pm June 16, 2015

by Alice Fordham

A year after the Iraqi city of Mosul was captured by self-declared Islamic State militants, there's no indication the Iraqi government and its U.S. ally are ready to try to take it back.

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Al-Qaida's No. 2 Leader Is Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

7:59am June 16, 2015

by Alice Fordham

Al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate announced on Tuesday that its leader Nasir al-Wahishi was killed by a U.S. drone strike last week. He was also the second-in-command to overall chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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Sudanese President Avoids Arrest In South Africa For War Crimes

7:59pm June 15, 2015

NPR's Melissa Block interviews David Crane, the former prosecutor of the special court for Sierra Leone, about how President Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur.

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Zoo Animals Roam Streets In Tbilisi, Georgia, After Deadly Floods

7:57pm June 15, 2015

NPR's Melissa Block talks to reporter Lawrence Sheets in Tbilisi, Georgia, about how the heavy flooding has killed 12 people and enabled zoo animals to escape.

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Street hawkers have taken over so many sidewalks in Harare's city center that some vendors are turning their cars into makeshift shops.

Zimbabwe To Street Vendors: Pack Up, Clean Up, Ship Out!

7:54pm June 15, 2015

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

The government says thousands of vendors must pack up their wares, move off the streets and pay rent to sell from designated zones. The vendors say: How will we be able to earn a living?

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Turkey Welcomes Syrian Refugees As Kurds Close In On ISIS

7:50pm June 15, 2015

by Peter Kenyon

A push by Kurdish forces against a self-declared Islamic State stronghold in Syria is making gains but displacing thousands of Arabs along the way, forcing them over the border into Turkey.

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Cybercrime Runs Rampant In Brazil With More Elaborate, Far-Reaching Schemes

7:46pm June 15, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Brazil is one of the top cybercrime countries in the world. Up until recently it was mostly its own citizens who were targeted, but now their imaginative schemes are involving Americans too.

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir (center), seen here next to Congo's president Denis Sasso-Nguesso (right) and Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, escaped an arrest order in South Africa.

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Sudanese President Flies Home After South African Court Orders His Arrest

5:12pm June 15, 2015

by Bill Chappell

President Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2009 on charges that he committed war crimes and genocide in Darfur, where 300,000 people died.

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Karim Wasfi, conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, at his home in Baghdad, has been playing his cello at the sites of explosive attacks in Baghdad.

Amid Violence In Baghdad, A Musician Creates A One-Man Vigil

5:11pm June 15, 2015

by NPR Staff

Karim Wasfi, conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, has been playing his cello at the sites of deadly attacks across the capital.

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