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Gua Sha, a facial massage technique in traditional Chinese medicine, has reached viral fame, thanks to social media influencers in the West.

Asian founders work to steer the narrative as beauty trends pull from their cultures

1:27pm May 28, 2022

by Emma Bowman

The latest obsessions in America's wellness craze are rooted in South Asian practices. Industry leaders who grew up with those rituals are caught between joy and a battle against cultural erasure.

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and think

7:00am May 28, 2022

by Nick Roll

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

Firemen extinguish a fire at a gypsum manufacturing plant after shelling in the city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Friday. Russia pressed on with a deadly offensive to capture key points in the Donbas this week.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 27)

5:31pm May 27, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Attendees during a closing campaign rally for presidential candidate Gustavo Petro in Bogotá, Colombia. Petro is ahead in the polls for this Sunday's election, but it's expected to go to a second round in June.

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Colombia goes into elections Sunday with a leftist looking to make history

4:20pm May 27, 2022

by John Otis

Colombia's presidential election is Sunday, and for the first time, a leftist candidate is favored to come out ahead. Business elites are nervous.

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Ancient Romans: they're just like us

4:09pm May 27, 2022

An ancient Roman tablet discovered in Northern England near Hadrian's Wall shows a graffiti message that feels... not so ancient.

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Insights on Uvalde from an activist who worked to make the U.K. safer

4:09pm May 27, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mick North, founding member of Gun Control Network and the father of one of the children killed at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland.

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Do restrictive abortion laws actually reduce abortion? A global map offers insights

10:47am May 27, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Click to see how restrictive or liberal local abortion laws are — and to look at the rate of abortion. The data offers a sense of whether stricter abortion laws reduce the number of abortions.

El título principal de un periódico londinense de mayo de 1982 dice: "Entran tropas británicas".

Hace 40 años, la Guerra Malvinas-Falkland transformó el rock latino

5:00am May 27, 2022

by Fi O'Reilly

Cuando se prohibió la transmisión de música en inglés en 1982, los grupos de rock argentino encontraron una oportunidad.

Relatives sit outside the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, Senegal, a town 75 miles northeast of Dakar Thursday, May 26, 2022.

11 babies die in a fire at a Senegalese hospital

2:36am May 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

The deadly fire comes a year after four other newborns died in a hospital fire in Senegal, a nation known for having some of the best hospitals in the region.

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Haitians face horrifying violence as gangs run out of local authorities' control

6:34pm May 26, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald about the spike in gang violence in Haiti and what it means for schools and hospitals.

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