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A music school wants to revive Turkish and Syrian connections through song

6:08pm January 16, 2023

by Fatma Tanis

Founded by refugee musicians, a music institute in Southern Turkey tries to revive forgotten Syrian classics and integrate Turkish and Syrian cultures with music the two have shared for centuries.

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Flowers lay on the seat of a children's swing just outside the apartment building.

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Amid the rubble in Dnipro, Ukraine, a frantic search grows increasingly desperate

4:45pm January 16, 2023

Rescuers have been racing to find survivors at an apartment complex attacked by Russian forces on Saturday. At least 40 people were killed, and more than 25 others are missing and feared dead.

Rescuers scour the crash site and wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan.16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday a day after the plane crashed while attempting to land.

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Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site

4:02pm January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash that killed at least 68.

Romanian officials are backdropped by a luxury vehicle which was seized in a case against media influencer Andrew Tate on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.

Andrew Tate's cars and watches, worth $4 million, are confiscated by Romanian police

12:28pm January 16, 2023

by Emily Olson

Romanian authorities hauled away a $3.9 million trove of luxury cars, watches and cash as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation involving into the self-styled male dominance influencer.

Christine Lambrecht rides in a tank during her visit to Tank Training Brigade 9 in Munster, Germany, Feb. 7, 2022.

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Germany's defense minister steps down after a string of widely criticized missteps

11:42am January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Christine Lambrecht said "media focus on my person" had clouded the debate about Germany's security policy. Her exit comes as Berlin faces mounting pressure to step up military aid to Ukraine.

Haiti has lost its last few democratically elected officials

6:59am January 16, 2023

Haiti is a country without a single democratically elected official. NPR's A Martinez talks to Cecile Accilien, a scholar of Haitian studies, about what this means for the country and its people.

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In this photo released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, firefighters carry a wounded woman out of the rubble of a building after a Russian rocket attack on Saturday in Dnipro.

Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building up to at least 35

4:30am January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.

A mannequin's head is covered in a woman dress shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022.

Kabul's mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules

2:12am January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.

FILE - Weapons lie on the ground as Ukrainian personnel train at a base in Southern England. The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday, Jan. 15th.

Expanded US training for Ukraine forces begins in Germany

1:00am January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday. Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.

Siamak Namazi, shown in this photo before his 2015 imprisonment, has begun a one-week hunger strike in Iran to mark seven years since he was left out of a prisoner swap that occurred when the Iran nuclear deal went into effect.

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Siamak Namazi, imprisoned since 2015 by Iran, has begun a hunger strike

12:02am January 16, 2023

by Michele Kelemen

The Iranian American businessman's hunger strike marks seven years after he was left out of a prisoner swap when the Iran nuclear deal took effect. He's appealing to President Biden for action.