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Kerry Flies To Russia To Discuss Ukraine, Syria Conflicts With Putin

1:19pm May 12, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday meets Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since the war in Ukraine broke out. Kerry is a true believer in face-to-face diplomacy.

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American GIs line up in the street in Troina, Sicily, utensils and dishes in hand, as they wait for a meal from a large pot, July 1943. Oregano grows abundantly in Southern Italy, where many GIs encountered the herb for the first time, and fell in love. M

GIs Helped Bring Freedom To Europe, And A Taste For Oregano To America

4:45pm May 11, 2015

by Nina Martyris

Now ubiquitous, oregano was a rarity in U.S. cuisine before World War II. But the GIs who encountered it in Sicily fell for the herb, especially in pizza, fueling a boom in Italian-American cuisine.

The Italian coast guard pulls migrants from an inflatable dinghy off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea last month. European Union leaders have submitted a plan of action to save lives in the Mediterranean.

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EU Proposes A Plan To Address The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

1:20pm May 11, 2015

by Brian Naylor

The European Union presented a proposal to the UN Monday morning, hoping to activate a plan for handling the flood of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to Europe.

Courier Strike In Berlin Keeps ATMs From Being Replenished

10:45am May 11, 2015

by Esme Nicholson

Couriers who re-fill ATMs in Berlin have been on strike for more than a week, and there's no end in sight. That's a problem in a country where almost 80 percent of all transactions are cash payments.

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Pope Francis talks with Cuban President Raul Castro during a private audience at the Vatican on Sunday.

Raul Castro Says Pope Inspiring Him To Return To Church

3:14pm May 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Cuban leader, who went to Jesuit schools as a child, says he might "resume praying and turn to the Church again" if Francis "continues in this vein."

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Ex-NATO Chief: 'We Will Never Recognize' Russia's Annexation Of Crimea

6:29am May 10, 2015

As Moscow marks 70 years since the allied victory over Hitler, NPR's Scott Simon talks to former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the West's frayed relations with Russia.

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Russia Holds WWII Remembrance; Western Leaders Stay Home

6:29am May 10, 2015

NPR's Corey Flintoff tells NPR's Scott Simon about Russia's celebration of the victory over Hitler 70 years ago Saturday. Western leaders stayed away to protest Russian moves on Ukraine.

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Plenty Were Humbled In UK Elections

6:29am May 10, 2015

After conservatives swept to power in the British vote on Thursday, we look at the election's many losers and what their defeat means.

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Nate Silver On Missed UK Forecasts: We Flubbed The Margin Of Error

6:29am May 10, 2015

Data guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com tells NPR's Scott Simon how all the forecasts, including his own, were so far off in predicting the results of this week's British election.

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'Fairytales Exist': Migrants Get A Football Team Of Their Own

6:29am May 10, 2015

Host Scott Simon reports that a soccer team of African migrants, formed by a priest, has reached the top of its league in Italy's Calabria region.

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