Europe

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday.

Putin illegally annexes territories in Ukraine, in spite of global opposition

3:53pm September 30, 2022

by Charles Maynes

The Russian president signed what he calls "accession treaties" that world powers refuse to recognize. It's his latest attempt to redraw the map of Europe at Ukraine's expense.

Wild boar Frieda eats next to a cow Thursday in a pasture in Holzminden, Germany.

World News

A piglet left behind by its herd finds a new family with some cattle

12:21pm September 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

Wild boars have a reputation for destruction, but farmer Friedrich Stapel told a news agency that he can't bear to chase away the piglet, which he's named Frieda. It'll winter with his mother cows.

How Russia's illegal annexation of Ukrainian regions could change the war

9:43am September 30, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Russia annexing four Ukrainian territories and how that could escalate the war.

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News brief: Hurricane Ian, Russia claims Ukrainian regions, Brazil's election

6:43am September 30, 2022

Now that Hurricane Ian has moved on, Floridians are assessing damage. Moscow is officially annexing four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine. Two ideological opposites aim to be Brazil's president.

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Britain's prime minister speaks up after being silent around sudden economy issues

4:34pm September 29, 2022

by Willem Marx

The British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister finally broke their silence after a disastrous week for the economy that many are blaming on their policies.

Putin's plan to annex regions of Ukraine will likely make it harder to end the war

4:10pm September 29, 2022

by Greg Myre

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning an elaborate Kremlin ceremony Friday to annex four regions of Ukraine. The move could make it much harder to find a solution to the war.

Moscow prepares to annex 4 Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine

12:33pm September 29, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to PBS NewsHour's Simon Ostrovsky about what the earlier annexation of Crimea might suggest for what happens now for the next areas Russia is trying to annex.

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A soldier who was formerly an IT entrepreneur and asked to be identified only by his call sign "Arun" manning a checkpoint in Borshchova, in northeastern Ukraine, on Friday. Ukrainian troops took back the area from Russian forces earlier this month.

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Ukraine's offensive in Kharkiv was hard and bitter, say soldiers who did the fighting

7:46am September 29, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

While Ukraine's counteroffensive this month was hailed as stunning by military observers, Ukrainian troops tell NPR that Russian forces put up stiff resistance in parts of the Kharkiv region.

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The British economy is in freefall with a rare intervention by the Bank of England

7:20am September 29, 2022

Britain's currency weakened to a record low against the U.S. dollar, while government borrowing costs shot up. This happened after the new conservative government announced new economic proposals.

News brief: Hurricane Ian is downgraded, Baltic pipeline leaks, U.K. economic turmoil

6:30am September 29, 2022

Ian roared ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. EU officials are concerned about explosions at Nord Stream pipelines. Britain's pound weakens to a record low against the U.S. dollar.

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