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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the briefing room of the State Department in Washington, Jan. 7, 2022.

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Blinken has a lot on his plate including tensions with China and the war in Ukraine

5:02pm February 14, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about U.S.-China tensions, the earthquake aftermath in Turkey and Syria and the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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A commercial satellite image of a facility known as Gornyi Kluch, or "Mountain Key," in October 2022. The camp is one of more than 40 locations in Russia verified by a team of researchers at Yale University to have been part of Russia's system of camps for and adoptions of children from Ukraine.

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Russia deports thousands of Ukrainian children. Investigators say that's a war crime

3:58pm February 14, 2023

by Deborah Amos

A team at Yale University is using open-source materials to document the forced removal of Ukrainian children to Russia. Russia says it's a vast humanitarian program.

People gathered to see a Banksy artwork on the side of a house in Margate, England, on Valentine's Day. The work depicts a 1950s housewife with a swollen eye, missing a tooth — and apparently shutting a man in a freezer. The freezer was later removed by council workers.

A Valentine's Day message from Banksy comments on violence against women

3:13pm February 14, 2023

by Bill Chappell

The work depicts a woman who appears to be missing a tooth and whose eye is swollen shut. Shortly after it appeared in England, parts of the graffiti installation were dismantled by local officials.

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Aqraba shows the Israeli settlement outpost of Gevat Arnon, near Nablus city in the southern occupied West Bank.

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European allies condemn Israel's plan to build more housing units in the West Bank

1:58pm February 14, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom joined the U.S. in condemning Israel's plans to build 10,000 more housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The ICRC connects families with POWs on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war

5:09am February 14, 2023

NPR's A Martinez talks to Martin Schüepp of the International Committee of the Red Cross about its efforts to reach prisoners of war from both sides in the Ukraine war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) walks with French President Emmanuel Macron on the tarmac of Vélizy-Villacoublay airbase as they prepare to board a flight together, en route to Brussels for a summit at European Parliament, on Feb. 9. Zelenskyy made a surprise Europe tour last week.

Latest in Ukraine: Updates on Russia's war and a look ahead (Feb. 13)

9:59am February 13, 2023

by NPR Staff

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

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Many Berliners say repeat elections are a sign of the city's deeper dysfunction

8:17am February 13, 2023

German efficiency is a stereotype challenged by the city of Berlin. Its civil government is so dysfunctional that the city had to re-do municipal elections over the weekend.

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Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. For Syrians and Ukrainians fleeing the violence back home, the earthquake that struck in Turkey and Syria is but the latest tragedy.

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Turkey detains building contractors as the quake death toll rises to more than 33,000

10:27am February 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

As rescuers still pulled some from the rubble, Turkish officials detained those allegedly involved in constructing buildings that toppled down and crushed their occupants.

Nicolas Lopoukhine, head of the Russian Orthodox Graves Maintenance Committee, points to a grave containing the remains of descendants of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

Even a cemetery in France is affected by Putin's war

1:10pm February 11, 2023

by Eleanor Beardsley

The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside Russia is in a suburb of Paris. This normally tranquil place has become a battleground between Russia and the West.

Turkish rescue workers carry Ergin Guzeloglan, 36, to an ambulance on Saturday after pulling him out of a collapsed building in Hatay, southern Turkey, five days after an earthquake devastated the region.

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Survivors are still being found as the earthquake's death toll tops 25,000

10:45am February 11, 2023

by The Associated Press

Rescue crews pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of the quake in Turkey and Syria surpassed 25,000.