Europe

News brief: primary results, Fed is likely to hike rates, NATO to discuss Ukraine

7:29am June 15, 2022

The Fed may announce another sharp jump in borrowing costs. Four states held primaries, with key races in South Carolina and Nevada. Ukraine requests that more heavy weapons be sent — and fast.

Queue Listen Now

A soldier carries a child from a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, England, by Border Force, following a small boat incident in the Channel, Tuesday June 14, 2022.

World News

U.K. vows more Rwanda deportation flights after legal setback

5:00am June 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

A Tuesday flight was canceled after the European Court of Human Rights, which said the British plan had a chance of causing "irreversible harm."

A flight scheduled to take asylum-seekers, regardless of their nationality, to Rwanda awaits its passengers Tuesday at Boscombe Down Air Base, 80 miles east of London. The flight was halted by a court injunction.

Sending asylum-seekers from Britain to Rwanda is human trafficking, an advocate says

8:07pm June 14, 2022

by Leila Fadel

The U.K. had planned to fly a group of asylum-seekers to Rwanda until a court stepped in. It's part of a new British immigration policy that's been widely criticized as cruel.

Queue Listen Now

World News

One of President Zelenskyy's top advisers told NPR what Ukraine wants

6:14pm June 14, 2022

by Greg Myre

The leaders of Ukraine are gaming out where the war with Russia goes from here. One of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's top advisers at Kyiv's presidential compound weighed in on what Ukraine wants.

Queue Listen Now

A man examines the roof of a hospital damaged during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday.

World News

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 14)

5:00pm June 14, 2022

by NPR Staff

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

First minister of Scotland unveils campaign for Scottish independence

4:20pm June 14, 2022

by Willem Marx

The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that her relatively autonomous government in Scotland would pursue a second referendum on full Scottish independence.

Queue Listen Now

Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner, pictured in 2021, has been detained in Russia since February.

World News

Russia extends Brittney Griner's detention until at least July 2

4:12pm June 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

WNBA star Brittney Griner will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, Russian state media reported. The U.S. says she is being wrongfully detained.

The boots of a dead Russian soldier can be seen under a flowering tree in Moshchun.

Ukrainians' discovery of a dead Russian soldier left for weeks stirs anguish and anger

1:38pm June 14, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

A Russian soldier's forgotten body is discovered in a liberated village north of Kyiv, setting off a range of emotions and an inquest — as Russia refuses to acknowledge many of its war dead.

Queue Listen Now

The British government debates the future of the Northern Ireland Protocol

7:43am June 14, 2022

by Willem Marx

The U.K. government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing proposed legislation to scrap a part of the Brexit deal that governs trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Queue Listen Now

The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is interviewed, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Washington.

World News

Scotland's leader starts a campaign for a new independence vote

5:04am June 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Britain's departure from the European Union has changed the political realities for Scots since the 2014 referendum that rejected independence.