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UK's Parliament votes on plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda

5:57am December 12, 2023

UK's parliament votes Tuesday on revisions to a controversial plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces revolt from hardliners in his own party.

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Centrist reformer Donald Tusk takes over as prime minister of Poland

5:57am December 12, 2023

Centrist Donald Tusk has been appointed Poland's new prime minister, taking over after eight years of rule by the right wing Law and Justice Party, which lost October's national election.

Poland elects new prime minister, ending right-wing party's rule

6:05pm December 11, 2023

by Rob Schmitz

Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party leaves government today following its defeat in last month's national election. Donald Tusk will become prime minister.

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Seeking more U.S. aid, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit Washington

6:05pm December 11, 2023

by Deirdre Walsh

Ukrainian President Zelensky is coming to Washington Tuesday to make a plea for Congress to approve more money to help in the country's war against Russia.

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Dmytro Orlov, the exiled mayor of Enerhodar, in his office at a community center in Zaporizhzhia.

With an inconclusive counteroffensive, Ukraine looks toward an anxious winter

5:00am December 11, 2023

by Joanna Kakissis

Ukraine's government acknowledges the gains in its most recent counteroffensive have been small. And it worries Western allies are distracted by the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules

10:56am December 09, 2023

by The Associated Press

The deal paves the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and has spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity.

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Winter setting in raises questions about Ukraine's next stage in its counteroffensive

8:27am December 09, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, and war studies expert, Phillips O'Brien, about Ukraine. There's a stalemate on two fronts, the battlefield and funding.

Opposition leader from Belarus gets U.S. help standing up a government in exile

5:50pm December 08, 2023

The U.S. says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the democratically elected leader of Belarus. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to her about efforts to change her government from exile.

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British government pushes ahead with plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda

4:55pm December 08, 2023

by Lauren Frayer

Despite legal challenges, the U.K. is pushing ahead with a plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda. But it's already cost taxpayers twice what was planned, and no one has been deported yet.

There's backlash over U.K. prime minister's plan to send migrants to Rwanda

11:16am December 08, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Madeleine Sumption of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, about the British government's latest plan to send migrants to Rwanda.

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