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Supporters of same-sex marriage bill take part in a rally at central Syntagma Square, in Athens, Greece, on Thursday.

Greece legalizes same-sex marriage despite church opposition

5:43pm February 15, 2024

by The Associated Press

Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church.

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Ukranians in Sumy are still living under attacks from Russia

4:42pm February 15, 2024

by Joanna Kakissis

NATO is promising a delivery of a million drones to Ukraine, even as future U.S. support seems uncertain. Ukrainians in Sumy, a region in northeastern Ukraine, live under Russian shelling and deadly mortar attacks.

A new Russian weapon system for targeting satellites is under development

4:42pm February 15, 2024

by Geoff Brumfiel

There's a new Russian weapon under development. A source has confirmed to NPR that the weapon is some kind of space-based nuclear system for targeting satellites.

The war in Ukraine is the top issue for the NATO defense ministers' meeting

5:16am February 15, 2024

by Teri Schultz

NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels for the first time since former President Donald Trump's incendiary remarks about the alliance.

Vice President Harris, seen here in December 2023, will be making a major address on Friday at the Munich Security Conference.

Trump is rattling Europe. Now Harris is going there to try to calm nervous allies

5:01am February 15, 2024

by Asma Khalid

Vice President Harris is making a major address on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. But European leaders are alarmed at the U.S. failure to keep its promise to continue to back Ukraine.

Three decades later, the French movie 'La Haine' is being turned into a musical

4:58pm February 14, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

A new musical in Paris opens this fall based on the French film classic La Haine, about life in the city's suburban slums.

Art, war and an unexpected friendship stretching between Gaza and Ireland

4:40pm February 14, 2024

by Lauren Frayer

An unlikely friendship began between a Gaza woman in grief and the Irish graffiti artist and activist who painted her as a mural in Dublin.

A Russian ship named Caesar Kunikov passes through the Dardanelles strait in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Sea, on Oct. 4, 2015.

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Ukraine's military says it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea

4:24pm February 14, 2024

by Joanna Kakissis

Ukraine's military says it destroyed Russia's Caesar Kunikov ship off the coast of occupied Crimea, although Russia has so far not confirmed the incident.

Yulya Dmytrieeva and her husband, Vadym, who have been together for over a decade, embrace in the snow in Sloviansk. They will spend a few days together while he has a break from the trenches on the front lines.

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Ukrainian soldiers' valentines arrive by 'train of love'

12:04pm February 14, 2024

Ukrainian soldiers on a break from the front lines meet up with their wives and girlfriends, who arrive on the so-called "train of love," where every day is Valentine's Day.

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Participants hold a giant rainbow flag in front of the Greek parliament during the Athens Pride parade in Athens on June 10, 2023.

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In Greece, same-sex couples await a landmark parliamentary vote on marriage equality

10:13am February 14, 2024

by Moira Lavelle

Greece's parliament is set to vote Thursday on same-sex marriage legislation that includes new parental rights for LGBTQ couples. The Greek Orthodox Church opposes same-sex marriage.