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Politics & Government

News brief: mail-in ballots, Indian child welfare case, migrants barred from Italy

7:44am November 08, 2022

Mail-in voting might keep election night from being results night. Supreme Court takes up Indian Child Welfare Act and adoption. Italy's new government is taking a hard line on Mediterranean migrants.

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Italy says dozens of migrants stuck on a ship near its coast aren't welcome

5:07am November 08, 2022

Italy's new right-wing government is taking a harder line on migrants picked up by rescue boats in the Mediterranean — blocking men from leaving the ships.

World News

A chance meeting in war-torn Ukraine helps reconnect friends half a world away

4:36pm November 07, 2022

by Kat Lonsdorf

NPR checks in on a woman in Ukraine, six months after her town was liberated from Russian occupation.

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A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a howitzer at a position on the front line near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Oct. 31.

Ukraine updates: Iran admits sending Russia drones as electricity knocked out (Nov. 7)

1:21pm November 07, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

A Ukranian woman sits in a car with her family in Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, after they fled from the Russian-occupied territory of Kherson.

World News

In southern Ukraine, Kherson residents live in fear — and hope — as battle looms

12:55pm November 07, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

Those who've left Kherson and others who still have loved ones there describe a community in fear of the Russian occupiers — and hopeful that increased shelling means the Ukrainians are coming.

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The Norway-flagged Geo Barents rescue ship carrying nearly 600 migrants arrives at Catania's port in Sicily on Sunday.

World News

Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

3:57pm November 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

Olha Abakumova is an opera singer and a member of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Philharmonic and a music teacher. When she came to the U.S. with her daughter, she made sure to find room in her suitcase for her most treasured sheet music for Ukrainian arias that she sings.

Health & Safety

When she left Ukraine, an opera singer made room for a most precious possession

8:20am November 06, 2022

by Jodi Hilton

She and her daughter carried one small suitcase for toiletries, clothes and shoes. But she made sure she had room for a few items with deep sentimental value.

A boat operator ferries inspectors to the Tzarevich ship, which is carrying 10,000 metric tons of sunflower meal from Chornomorsk, Ukraine, to Bulgaria, on Oct. 6 in Istanbul. The ship stopped en route in the Marmara Sea in order to be checked by officials from the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.

Photos: A close-up look at Ukraine grain export inspections

5:01am November 05, 2022

At the heart of the Ukraine grain export deal is a complex inspection process involving Turkey and the U.N. NPR recently joined a team of inspectors aboard a ship carrying grain in the Marmara sea.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, welcomes German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.

World News

Scholz and Xi agree Russia would cross a line with nuclear weapons in Ukraine

10:52am November 04, 2022

by Rob Schmitz

After a meeting with Xi in Beijing, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the two leaders agreed that with the use of nuclear weapons, Russia would cross a line drawn by the international community.

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What life is like for those living in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson

4:26pm November 03, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

A potential battle for the Russian-occupied city of Kherson could change the trajectory of the Ukrainian war. For those stuck there, life is hard and dangerous.

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