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Demonstrators try to pull down a smart lamppost during the protest in Hong Kong on Saturday that turned violent. The smart lampposts are raising fears of stepped-up surveillance from authorities.

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Violence Returns To Hong Kong As Police Fire Tear Gas And Protesters Fight Back

4:02pm August 24, 2019

by Gabriela Saldivia

Pro-democracy demonstrators barricaded roads with bamboo and hurled bricks at authorities. They also tore down "smart lampposts" they fear are being used for surveillance by authorities in China.

U.S. President Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz, France. Leaders of some of the world's major economies have arrived in the country for the Group of Seven summit.

Trade And Economic Tensions Loom Over G-7 Summit In France

2:58pm August 24, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

Just before leaving Washington, D.C., Friday, President Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese imports and threatened to force American companies to leave China.

Cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatment at Roshana Cancer Center, a private clinic in western Tehran.

Iran Under Sanctions: A Scramble For Cancer Care And Blame To Go Around

2:12pm August 24, 2019

Shortages affecting hospitals and clinics are a perilous example of an economic crisis that has worsened since the U.S. imposed economic and financial penalties on the country.

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Situation In Idlib, Syria

8:32am August 24, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon asks U.N. Regional Humanitarian Coordinator Panos Moumtzis about conditions in Idlib, Syria.

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The Human Chain Of The Baltic Way

8:32am August 24, 2019

by Lucian Kim

Thirty years ago, 2 million people in the Baltic states made a human chain to demand independence from the Soviet Union. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians remembered the chain Friday.

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'Derry Girls' Is A Hit In Northern Ireland

8:32am August 24, 2019

by Joanna Kakissis

Derry Girls on Netflix is about teenagers in the '90s during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It's a comedy. Locals in Londonderry love it and they tell us why.

'Official Secrets' And The Iraq War

8:32am August 24, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon asks Katharine Gun and Martin Bright about the new movie, Official Secrets.

Larry Summers On Trade War

8:32am August 24, 2019

President Trump deepened the trade war Friday, in response to retaliatory Chinese tariffs. NPR's Scott Simon talks to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in London on Friday, calling on President Jair Bolsonaro to act to protect the Amazon rainforest. The European Union is throwing its weight behind French President Emmanuel Macron's call

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Brazilian President Bolsonaro To Send Army To Combat Amazon Rainforest Fires

8:15pm August 23, 2019

by Philip Reeves

Tens of thousands of fires have erupted in the Amazon so far this year — a huge spike over 2018 — and critics blame Bolsonaro's policies. He said Friday that protecting the rainforest is "our duty."

A present-day view of the harbor in Kangeq, which was abandoned by the Danish government.

What Do Greenlanders Think Of Trump's Interest In Buying Greenland?

6:37pm August 23, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The majority are Inuit. They laugh about his interest but also take it seriously. One says such talk is "extremely imperialistic and should not be something that we hear world leaders say in 2019."