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Brazil's President Lula travels to China to find support to help end war in Ukraine

5:39am April 13, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in China looking for support from Beijing for Brasilia's "peace club" of countries planning to help end the war in Ukraine.

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Reaction in Ireland to President Biden's visit is lukewarm

5:39am April 13, 2023

by Frank Langfitt

People in Ireland lined up to see President Joe Biden during his visit on Wednesday, but the political reaction to the U.S. president was lukewarm, NPR's Frank Langfitt reports.

Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry (shown here in January 2020) will attend the coronation service of his father, King Charles III, at Westminster Abbey on May 6.

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Prince Harry will attend his father's coronation, but his wife Meghan will not

7:33pm April 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

The announcement ended speculation about whether Harry would be welcome after leveling charges of racism and media manipulation at the royal family. Meghan and their children will remain in the U.S.

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How the war in Ukraine has forever changed the children in one kindergarten class

7:37am April 12, 2023

by Elissa Nadworny

The Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted one kindergarten class in Kharkiv city — spreading families across the world and forcing them to make choices to deal with trauma affecting their children.

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Biden begins his three-day visit to the island of Ireland in Belfast

4:57pm April 11, 2023

by Frank Langfitt

President Biden has landed in Belfast to visit the island of Ireland. He'll be honoring the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended the political violence known as the troubles.

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Following one Kharkiv kindergarten class since the Russian invasion

4:26pm April 11, 2023

by Elissa Nadworny

The Russian invasion spread families of one kindergarten class in Kharkiv across the world and forced families to make choices about how to deal with trauma manifesting in the country's youngest.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron visit the garden of the residence of the Governor of Guangdong on April 7.

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Macron comments raise questions about Europe's allegiance to the U.S. and Taiwan

11:13am April 11, 2023

by H.J. Mai

When French President Emmanuel Macron remarked that Europe should not blindly follow the U.S.'s lead on China, it set off criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Russia is jailing an increasing number of private American citizens

5:05am April 11, 2023

Washington and Moscow have worked out prisoner swaps for decades, though they used to involve spies. Today, an increasing number of private American citizens are being jailed by Russia.

United States flags flutter in the breeze above shops in Ballina town center on April 7 as the town prepares to welcome President Biden in County Mayo, his ancestral home.

In Ireland, Biden is on a diplomatic and deeply personal mission

5:05am April 11, 2023

by Tamara Keith

President Biden's trip marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is part diplomacy and part homecoming.

A picture provided by German humanitarian organization Sea-Watch shows a boat in distress with some 400 people on board in the central Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.

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2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

3:18pm April 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.