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German forests face threat from bark beetles following years of drought

4:52am July 26, 2023

by Esme Nicholson

Germany's woodlands, long associated with Grimm's Fairy Tales, are dying. After years of drought, the trees are now facing a new onslaught from bark beetles. Many believe climate change is the cause.

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U.S. and Europe search for new Ukraine export routes after Russia leaves grain deal

4:52am July 26, 2023

by Michele Kelemen

Russia withdrew from a deal that allowed Ukraine to export its goods to world markets despite the war. The U.S. and Europe have been working on alternative routes, though the options are limited.

A warming climate could ruin this long held summer tradition in Sicily

5:28pm July 25, 2023

by Joseph Leahy

In Sicily, record breaking heat threatens a cooling tradition that has been handed down for generations. Every year in late July, a small village hikes to a mountain chasm for snow to make granita.

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A poster photo of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Russian prisoner Trevor Reed stands in Lafayette Park near the White House, March 30, 2022, in Washington. Reed, a former U.S. Marine who was released from Russia in a prisoner swap last year, has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said.

Marine veteran Trevor Reed was wounded fighting in Ukraine

3:40pm July 25, 2023

by Michele Kelemen

The U.S. Marine veteran was freed from Russian prison in a prisoner swap last year. Now he has sustained an injury while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said.

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Reconstruction is slow in Turkey, which is still reeling from earthquakes in February

8:14am July 25, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction.

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Reconstruction is slow in Turkey, which is still reeling from earthquakes in February

7:50am July 25, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction.

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What will happen to Greece's economy as wildfires impact tourism?

4:50am July 25, 2023

by Leila Fadel

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Doug Lansky, a tourism expert based in Sweden, about the impact of wildfires on tourism in Greece.

July 19, 2023: Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire in a forest near Nea Peramos, west of Athens.

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Wildfires in Greece prompt massive evacuations, leaving tourists in limbo

2:56pm July 24, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Tens of thousands of people, many of them British tourists, are scrambling to evacuate from Rhodes and Corfu as wildfires rage across the country. Temperatures are expected to climb again Tuesday.

Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Baghdad, Saturday. Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq's government, following reports of the burning of a Quran by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.

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Denmark's latest Quran burning sparks more outrage in Iraq and other Muslim nations

1:53pm July 24, 2023

Protesters set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy in Denmark's capital of Copenhagen, the latest such incident to draw condemnation from Muslim-majority countries.

Church personnel inspect the damage inside the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, following Russian missile attacks.

Latest on Ukraine: As Russia pounds Odesa, Moscow and Crimea become targets

1:21pm July 24, 2023

by Alex Leff

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.