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Investigation Into Paris Attack Leads Authorities To Spain

9:00am January 27, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

In the wake of attacks in Paris, part of the investigation into terror cells in Europe has led to Spain. One of the Paris gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, is believed to have visited Madrid in the days before he burst into a kosher market, killing four people.

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A Former Child Soldier Will Stand Trial In The Hague For War Crimes

9:00am January 27, 2015

by Gregory Warner

Dominic Ongwen is accused of forcing child soldiers to beat, maim and kill. Only he himself was once a victim — abducted by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army as a 10-year-old walking home from school.

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U.S. Careful Amid Turmoil And Transition In Yemen, Saudi Arabia

9:00am January 27, 2015

by Tamara Keith

The White House is facing uncertainty in the wake of political turmoil in Yemen and political transition in Saudi Arabia.

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U.S.-Cuba Talks First Step In Long Process Of Restoring Relations

9:00am January 27, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

U.S. diplomats have wrapped up two days of talks with Cuban officials — the highest-level meeting in 35 years. The aim is to start talking through how to restore diplomatic relations following the historic warming of ties announced last month by President Obama and President Raul Castro.

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New Generation Of Saudi Royals In Line To Run Country

9:00am January 27, 2015

For 62 years, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by sons of the founder of the Kingdom, Abdul Aziz. Robert Siegel talks to Middle East specialist Joseph Braude about Saudi succession.

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Netanyahu Accepts Republican Invitation To Address Congress

8:20pm January 26, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Lawmakers say the Obama administration is "stiff arming" Congress, keeping them away from diplomacy with Iran. The House Speaker is fighting back, inviting Israel's tough talking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress soon.

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Schoolchildren and activists scramble up a bridge Monday after police try to break up a protest with tear gas at the Langata Road Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya.

Police Fire Tear Gas On Kenyan Kids Protecting A Soccer Field

8:15pm January 26, 2015

by Gregory Warner

Hundreds of kids in Nairobi protested the loss of their playground to a developer Monday. In the end, the children did what ordinary Kenyans are rarely able to do: defend a public space.

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Netanyahu Speech To Congress Is High-Risk, High-Reward, Analysts Say

7:50pm January 26, 2015

by Emily Harris

Israelis are watching the latest spat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House — which could worsen his country's global standing, but win him votes in Israel's March elections.

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Weekend Shelling Kills 30 People In Eastern Ukraine

7:48pm January 26, 2015

Steve Inskeep talks to Shaun Walker, Moscow bureau chief for The Guardian, who is covering renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine. The latest shelling killed 30 people in the port city of Mariupol.

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Hundreds Of U.S. Military Trainers Headed For Iraq

7:34pm January 26, 2015

by Tom Bowman

They are expected to head to Iraq in the coming weeks to build up an Iraqi Army that has all but fallen apart. The additional American soldiers and Marines will work out of an ever-expanding number of training sites around the country. U.S. officials expect ground operations sometime in the spring to take back territory seized by the so-called Islamic State.

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