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The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted most of the fighting....
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NPR » 2 weeks ago
El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the government of President Nayib Bukele....
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The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth minerals, sought after for the production of cell phones, computers, electric and hybrid vehicles, and more. But in the last few decades, China has cornered that market and surpassed the US. We explore how....
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Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador....
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Palestinians were shot dead during a food distribution on Saturday at a center run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, hospital officials said....
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Chris Camponovo, a former State Department lawyer, examines what a multi-national prisoner swap says about the Trump administration's third country deportation strategy....
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The recent push by several countries to recognize a state of Palestine is largely symbolic, but it carries diplomatic and potentially legal weight....
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Michael Lynk, former U.N. Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestinian territories, about recent international moves to recognize a Palestinian state....
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NPR » 2 weeks ago
China has nearly cornered the market in rare earth minerals, which are a necessary component to much of our technology today. But China sources some of those rare earths and other heavy metals from neighboring Myanmar. And the ramped up in production there is causing downstream environmental concern...
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