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John Oliver Says U.S. Students Learn Virtually Nothing About Africa

7:18pm September 09, 2015

by Anders Kelto

So we asked a former U.S. student who went to live in Africa to come up with 11 factoids — a crash course on the continent. Note: We will not test you on these facts.

A man and a child stand in the doorway of a bus provided by Hungarian authorities for migrants and refugees stranded at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday. The migrants boarded buses provided by Hungary's government and headed to A

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The Migrant Crisis, By The Numbers

6:43pm September 09, 2015

by Greg Myre

In the fast-moving migrant crisis, here's a snapshot of the key figures.

A newborn in Sierra Leone is treated after delivery by Caesarean section. The country's child mortality rate has dropped from 264 per 1,000 in 1990 to an estimated 120 this year.

How Many Children Under 5 Die A Year In The U.S. Vs. Angola?

2:47pm September 09, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

A new report emphasizes significant progress in cutting the number of deaths of children before age 5. But in some parts of the world, the rate is still depressingly high.

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Mayor In England Encourages Bristol Residents To Take In Refugees

7:44am September 09, 2015

Renee Montagne talks to Mayor George Ferguson of Bristol, England, who has offered to share his home with Syrian refugees. He did the same thing years ago for refugees from Uganda.

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Dentist and trophy hunter Walter Palmer (left) walks to his clinic in Bloomington, Minn., with private security and members of the media Tuesday.

American Dentist Who Killed Cecil The Lion Returns To Work

7:31am September 09, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

Walter Palmer had been out of the public eye since killing the lion in Zimbabwe in July. He returned to his dental practice in Minnesota on Tuesday.

Journalist: Egypt's Anti-Terror Law Restricts Freedom Of Expression

4:09pm September 08, 2015

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Khaled Dawoud, deputy editor of Al Ahram weekly, about how the new anti-terrorism law in Egypt restricts the media.

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Ann Cotton, pictured with students in Tanzania, makes sure girls have the funds for everything from books to shoes, so they won't "feel like a poor relation" in school.

These Girls Complain If They Can't Go To School

12:03pm September 07, 2015

by Marc Silver

In some countries, parents don't send daughters to school. The obstacle can be tuition fees of, say, $300 a year. But a coal miner's daughter has found a way to bring 1.4 million girls to class.

A migrant girl holds a sign expressing her love to Germany as she arrives at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, on Saturday. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from Munich to be transported by bus to an accomodation center.

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Trainloads Of Migrants Begin Arriving In Germany

4:01pm September 06, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Thousands of refugees, mainly escaping conflict in Syria and Iraq, began arriving in Munich after transiting through Austria.

Abdel Mounan, an Iraqi refugee, holds his young daughter. After two days in a refugee camp in Hungary, Munan says he'd rather die than return to Iraq.

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Austria, Germany Agree To Take Migrants Stopped In Hungary

7:36am September 06, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Groups of the refugees earlier had left a rail station and stopped train and begun walking toward Austria. Also: The father of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea buries his family.

A woman holds her smiling baby in her arms as she arrives at the Hauptbahnhof station in Salzburg, Austria, on Saturday on their way with other migrants from Hungary via Vienna to Germany.

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Migrants Arrive In Austria, Germany After Being Bused To Border

2:32pm September 05, 2015

by L. Carol Ritchie

The refugees from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere have been blocked for days from leaving Hungary.