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Paris is cleaning up the Seine in preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games

8:04am September 03, 2023

by Rebecca Rosman

Organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games want to make use of the Seine River, even for some swimming events. Cleaning up the city's famous waterway is proving difficult though.

A screen grab from the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Youtube channel shows the Aditya-L1 spacecraft lift off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the space center in Sriharikota, India, Saturday.

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India launches craft to study the sun after a successful lunar landing

9:54pm September 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

The spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 930,000 miles from earth, known as L-1.

The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year's award ceremonies.

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Foundation pulls invite to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend Nobel Prize ceremonies

9:42pm September 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

Swedish lawmakers had said they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm after the foundation initially invited representatives of the three countries to attend.

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after a news conference in New York in 2021.

Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor who worked to free Americans held abroad, dies

7:37pm September 02, 2023

by Emma Bowman

Richardson, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was also known for his volunteer efforts to free Americans held in foreign countries.

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Violence in Haiti escalates amid a civilian vigilante movement

11:48am September 02, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles about the horrific uptick of violence in Haiti, where vigilantes and gangs are engaged in deadly clashes.

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The novel 'Between Two Moons' is Aisha Abdel Gawad's 'love letter' to Arab Americans

7:24pm September 01, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with novelist Aisha Abdel Gawad about her new novel Between Two Moons. It's a coming of age story about teenage twins in Brooklyn and takes place during one month of Ramadan.

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Paris says 'au revoir' to electric scooters as ban takes effect

7:22pm September 01, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

After five years of chaos in the streets, Paris is saying goodbye to electric scooters. One of the first major cities to embrace them is now the first major capital to fall out of love and ban them.

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An unwanted kiss from a Spanish soccer official has sparked a movement

6:42pm September 01, 2023

by Miguel Macias

The unwanted kiss a Spanish soccer official planted on a female player after the team won the FIFA World Cup has galvanized Spain's "se acabo" feminist movement: "That's enough."

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A man rides a scooter in Paris, on March 31. The city has now banned rental electric scooters.

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Paris' rental electric scooter ban has taken effect

5:56pm September 01, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

The city held a referendum and banned rental e-scooters after reports of injuries and three deaths.

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A Roman-era statue, thought to represent Marcus Aurelius, stands in a gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art on June 25, 2010.

Roman emperor statue seized from Cleveland Museum of Art in smuggling investigation

5:17pm September 01, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The headless statue is believed to depict Marcus Aurelius. The investigation into its origins comes over a decade after Turkey claimed that 21 objects at the museum were linked to an illicit trade.