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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is shown making a statement to the media gathered outside the High Court in London, Dec. 5, 2011.

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WikiLeaks founder Assange starts final legal battle to avoid extradition to U.S.

3:10am February 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

Julian Assange's lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge on Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a factory on Thursday.

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Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR

6:54pm February 19, 2024

If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist.

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By accident, scientists found an underwater 'megastructure' from the Stone Age

4:58pm February 19, 2024

by Ari Daniel

Scientists have found what they say could be one of the oldest Stone Age megastructures in Europe: a giant stone wall on the floor of the Baltic Sea. They've dubbed it the "Blinkerwall."

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How safe are other Kremlin critics held in Russia's prison system?

4:29pm February 19, 2024

Alexei Navalny's death has shaken the families of other political prisoners in Russia. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of jailed opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.

With trade in the Red Sea disrupted, tea has a longer journey to British mugs

4:29pm February 19, 2024

by Lauren Frayer

In Britain, people worry as Houthi attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea threaten supply chains for their national drink.

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 16, on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny had died.

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Widow of Alexei Navalny takes center stage in Russia's opposition

4:09pm February 19, 2024

by Charles Maynes

Yulia Navalnaya appeared on her late husband's YouTube channel in a forceful challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of murder. Navalnaya says she will carry on her husband's work.

Following Navalny's death, mourners are arrested and dissent is not tolerated

7:24am February 19, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Sergey Radchenko of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who says, when opposition figure Alexei Navalny died, so did all political hope for Russia.

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Russia's military forces Ukrainian troops out of a strategically important town

5:10am February 19, 2024

As Ukraine struggles for military supplies and aid, a town in the eastern region of Donetsk that has been on the frontline for 10 years has fallen to Russia.

European leaders are bracing for the possibility of a more isolationist U.S.

5:10am February 19, 2024

NPR's A Martinez talks with Catherine Fieschi, a political analyst and fellow at the European University Institute, about what a more isolationist America would mean for Europe.

Supporters of the outgoing Law and Justice party protest outside the headquarters of Poland's state-owned TVP broadcaster after the new government took control last December.

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Poland's new government deprograms its once far-right public media

5:10am February 19, 2024

by Rob Schmitz

Under Poland's Law and Justice party, the country's public broadcaster was turned into a propaganda tool for the far-right government to use as it wished. That era has come to an end.