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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, left, meets with government troops in the embattled town of Mariupol the country's restive Donetsk Region.

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Ukrainian President Offers Limited Autonomy For Rebellious Region

8:12am September 10, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Petro Poroshenko is offering a bill to grant special status to parts of the country's restive east, but he reiterates that there will be no concession on sovereignty.

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Shakey Cease-Fire Manages To Hold In Ukraine

8:01am September 10, 2014

by Eleanor Beardsley

The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is largely holding, but the mood in the capital Kiev is cautious. Each side accuses the other of sporadic shelling.

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German Waiter Trained To Carry 27 Beer Steins

8:01am September 10, 2014

Oliver Struempfel set a reputed world record for carrying beer. Video shows him pressing the 27 steins together in one great two-tiered mass.

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Hundreds Of Chechens Join ISIS, Including Group's No. 2 Leader

10:58am September 05, 2014

Rebels from Chechnya have joined ranks with other jihadists in ISIS. David Greene talks to Gordan Hahn, author of Russia's Islamic Threat and an analyst for the Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation.

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Students Mistakenly Given Answers To Exam

10:58am September 05, 2014

Instead of blank sheets, the students in Austria were given the version meant for professors to use to grade them.The students now have the pleasure of being re-tested next month.

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An aid worker takes a break on a big pile of food, which was brought to the small eastern Ukrainian city of Starobilsk by a humanitarian convoy.

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Aid Is On The Way For Eastern Ukraine, If Only It Can Pass The Checkpoints

8:38am September 04, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Both Ukraine and Russia say they're trying to send supplies to residents in eastern Ukraine. But with tensions on both sides running high, that aid may take a while to arrive.

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Legal Troubles Dog Famed Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava

7:43am September 04, 2014

by Lauren Frayer

A Spanish court named Calatrava, designer of New York's Ground Zero transport hub, a suspect in alleged contract fraud. Prosecutors say he got $3.6 million for a convention center that wasn't built.

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Europeans throw away 90 million tons of food each year, including these vegetables pulled from waste bins of an organic supermarket in Berlin. A new German website aims to connect surplus food with people who want it.

Got Leftovers To Share? In Germany, There's A Website For That

4:26pm September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Europeans throw away about 90 million tons of food each year. A new German website aims to ratchet that number down a bit by connecting people with leftovers to spare with people who could use them.

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Ukraine Announces Cease-Fire With Russia

8:22am September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Ukraine's president says he and Russian President Putin have agreed to a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. Putin's spokesman says since Russia isn't a party to the conflict it can't agree to a ceasefire.

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Why The British Allowed The Rotherham Abuse To Fester

12:33pm August 30, 2014

The Guardian's Randeep Ramesh tells NPR's Scott Simon about the social and societal forces at work in British culture which might have contributed to the cover-up of the Rotherham child abuse case.

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