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U.S. To Monitor Security Agreement Signed Between Russia And Nicaragua

2:03pm November 17, 2016

by Carrie Kahn

Russia is building a new embassy complex, anti drug training center and satellite station in Nicaragua this year. That's on top of providing new military equipment to the former Cold War ally.

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Climate change has made summers in Greenland warmer and drier, leading to a decline in the number of sheep farms on the island.

Greenland's Getting Warmer, But Farmers There Are Struggling More Than Ever

1:37pm November 17, 2016

by Eli Kintisch

Warming and longer summers in Greenland have raised hopes for expansion of agriculture on the island. But the summers have been drier, causing a decline in the number of sheep farms on the island.

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Dutch WWII-Era Shipwrecks Have Mysteriously Disappeared

4:39pm November 16, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Divers discovered that three Dutch shipwrecks dating back to World War II have vanished from the sea floor near Indonesia. Experts are puzzled and say they would be hard to salvage.

Ukrainian tanks near the border with the Russian-controlled region of Crimea in August.

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Russia Withdraws Support For International Criminal Court

11:47am November 16, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Russia is withdrawing its signature from the treaty establishing the ICC, after the court released a report calling the 2014 seizure of Crimea from Ukraine an "international armed conflict."

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Populist Party Campaigns On Making Poland Great Again

5:46pm November 15, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

The right-wing, Law and Justice Party says it wants to give Poles back their identity and values. Supporters welcome Donald Trump's election, but not his coziness with Moscow.

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Gigantic Shield Moves Into Place To Cover Exploded Chernobyl Reactor

3:33pm November 15, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

It's billed as the "largest movable land-based structure ever built," and it is an important step toward ultimately dismantling the reactor. The 1986 blast was the world's worst nuclear disaster.

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Greece Welcomes Obama On Final Presidential Foreign Trip

6:04am November 15, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

President Obama is making his first official visit to Greece. He'll also visit Germany and Peru. Obama says he will reassure U.S. allies that President-elect Donald Trump remains committed to them.

A Paris billboard sports an oft-repeated motto in response to the terror attacks, "fluctuat nec mergitur," or "tossed but not sunk."

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A Year After The Paris Attacks, The Conversation Has Changed

11:46am November 14, 2016

by Wynne Davis

Wynne Davis, an American college student, was studying international security in Paris when terrorists struck last November. She reflects on how it's influenced her and other students there.

Baltic States Nervous Over Trump's Attitude Toward Russia

5:21pm November 13, 2016

NATO members Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are anxious over President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of NATO and comments about forging stronger ties between the U.S. and Russia.

Trump Presidency Will Top Agenda At European Union Foreign Ministers Meeting

8:40am November 13, 2016

European foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Brussels on Sunday to discuss how the EU can work with the new U.S. president-elect.