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Tiny Hungarian Village Puts Itself Up For Hire

10:40am February 28, 2015

Planning an event? There's an entire village in Hungary that's available for rent. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Barabara Balogh, the village of Megyer's sales manager, about how to book the town.

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Report Urges Britain To Take Small-Claims Cases Online

10:40am February 28, 2015

Instead of settling low-value civil cases in court, a new report from the Civil Justice Council says these disputes should be settled online. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the author, Richard Susskind.

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People lay flowers on Saturday at the place where Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

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West Calls On Russia For Independent Probe Of Nemtsov's Murder

10:07am February 28, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The opposition leader and harsh critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down in public on Friday.

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Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead

10:52pm February 27, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Nemtsov served as a governor and deputy prime minister in the 1990s. He later became an opposition leader and sharp critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was killed on a street in Moscow.

Alienation And Charismatic Recruiters Among Keys To Radicalization

8:13pm February 27, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Maajid Nawaz, a self-described former Islamic radical who grew up in Essex, England. He now runs the counter-extremist organization Quilliam.

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Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow

8:13pm February 27, 2015

by Corey Flintoff

On Friday, gunmen shot to death the prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov was a longtime Russian opposition leader and a sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin.

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Families Of ISIS Victims React To Identification Of 'Jihadi John'

7:16pm February 27, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The family of Steven Sotloff said they hoped the man identified as Mohammed Emzawi is brought to justice. The daughter of aid worker David Haines said she wanted a "bullet between ... [his] eyes."

A playground can be seen outside an address in London where Kuwaiti-born London computer programmer Mohammed Emwazi is believed to have lived. Emwazi has been identified as masked ISIS militant "Jihadi John."

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More Details On 'Jihadi John': Early Run-Ins And Radicalization

3:58pm February 27, 2015

by Bill Chappell

There are two narratives about Mohammed Emwazi's past that attempt to explain how the man who grew up in West London became internationally notorious.

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A court sketch of former glam rocker Gary Glitter, who was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

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Rocker Gary Glitter Jailed For 16 Years For Child Sex Abuse

10:50am February 27, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The 70-year-old, best known for the stadium rock anthem "Rock & Roll (Part 2)," was convicted for sex offenses during the 1970s and '80s against three girls between the ages of 8 and 13.

A field of unharvested wheat is seen in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England, in 2012. Wheat wasn't cultivated in Britain until some 6,000 years ago, but DNA evidence suggests early Britons were eating the grain at least 8,000 years ago.

Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It

10:45am February 27, 2015

by Chris Joyce

Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.

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