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Students interact with a teacher during a lesson at Poland's Warsaw Ukrainian School, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

This school takes kids from the most traumatized parts of Ukraine — and offers hope

11:19am May 17, 2022

Teachers in Warsaw work to address student-held trauma in classrooms after the Polish school system absorbed tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugee students.

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Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi speaks during a press conference about Sunday's parliamentary elections, at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday.

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Hezbollah and its allies lose their majority in Lebanon's parliament

10:19am May 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, final elections results showed Tuesday, while more than a dozen independent newcomers gained seats.

Al Noor mosque shooting survivor Temel Atacocugu points to the scar of a bullet wound in his arm during an interview at his home, Feb. 25, 2020, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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New Zealand shooting survivor says violence achieved nothing

4:21am May 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

The deadly attacks at two Christchurch mosques brought people together rather than sowing discord, one of the survivors says.

A wounded service member of the Ukrainian forces from the besieged Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol is transported out of a bus on a stretcher under escort of pro-Russian fighters, upon arrival in Novoazovsk, Ukraine, on Monday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 16)

10:50pm May 16, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Holding a sign reading "No negotiation with terrorists," Cuba supporters protest in Miami ahead of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Cuba in Washington in April.

Biden eases restrictions on Cuban travel and remittances

9:22pm May 16, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

The White House plans to make it easier for families to visit relatives in Cuba and increase visa processing on the island, reversing some of former President Trump's policies.

A view shows the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on May 10. Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated to Russian-controlled territory.

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Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from steel plant to Russian-held territory

9:21pm May 16, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

It's unclear if the soldiers have been taken prisoner or are under the protection of the U.N., but a Ukrainian official says they would be able to return home after a prisoner exchange with Russia.

A Ukrainian soldier examines a fragment of a Russian Air Force Su-25 jet after a battle at the village of Kolonshchyna, Ukraine, on April 21. Russia was expected to establish air superiority in the first days of the war. But Ukraine's air defenses have be

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Ukraine says it's downed 200 aircraft, a mark of Russian failures in the sky

5:22pm May 16, 2022

by Greg Myre

Russia was expected to dominate the skies over Ukraine. But Ukrainians are still shooting down helicopters and planes, making Russian pilots very wary about venturing into Ukrainian airspace.

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International Rescue Committee head on Ukrainian refugee crisis and what we can learn

4:55pm May 16, 2022

More people are now crossing the border into Ukraine than are fleeing the war. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the head of the International Rescue Committee about the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

How a school in Warsaw is educating kids of Ukrainian families who fled to Poland

4:37pm May 16, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from Warsaw on how Ukrainian children are being educated in Poland.

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Burned-out Russian tanks stand on the road between Malaya Rohan and Vil'Khivka, Ukraine, just east of Kharkiv. Both villages were in Russian hands for much of March and into April.

People are picking up the pieces around Kharkiv after liberation by Ukrainian forces

3:55pm May 16, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

Ukrainian troops are pushing Russian forces away from the country's second-largest city. That's allowing residents to move out of shelters, assess damage and try to resume something of a normal life.

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