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A waiter hangs a picture of missing 3-year-old girl Madeleine McCann on a restaurant's window on May 10 2007, in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal.

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15 years later, Portugal identifies a suspect in the probe of a missing British girl

10:56am April 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

Prosecutors formally accuse a suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished nearly 15 years ago while on a family vacation. She was 3 years old at the time.

Activists demonstrate in front of a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea this spring. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Russian oil. However, most countries have not, and refineries around the world still import Russian oil.

Despite U.S. sanctions, oil traders help Russian oil reach global markets

10:09am April 22, 2022

by Julia Simon

Russia is still making billions of dollars on oil exports since invading Ukraine. That crude is still flowing abroad thanks in part to a controversial group of oil traders.

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March 19, 2022: an overview of a cemetery and the early expansion of graves.

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Another possible mass grave with as many as 9,000 bodies is found near Mariupol

9:35am April 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The apparent mass grave seen in satellite images covers a space larger than three football fields. The imagery shows rows of graves stretching away from an existing cemetery in Manhush, near Mariupol.

Israeli police clash with Palestinian protesters at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 22, 2022.

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Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site after rock-throwing

2:03am April 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.

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Russia is strangling one of Ukraine's most important ports

8:04pm April 21, 2022

by Brian Mann

Odesa's port was a lifeline for Ukraine and a key player in global supply chains. Now, Russia's invasion and a blockade in the Black Sea have the city in a stranglehold.

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Ronan Farrow on investigating the world's most notorious spyware company: NSO Group

7:27pm April 21, 2022

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Ronan Farrow about his New Yorker investigation into Israeli spyware company NSO Group, and his interview with an employee who quit.

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For those seeking medical care, a request to leave Gaza can mean life or death

6:13pm April 21, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

A Palestinian man struggles to get approval to leave the Gaza Strip and go to a hospital for heart surgery as his health deteriorates.

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The latest on the probe into atrocities committed by Russian forces around Kyiv

5:12pm April 21, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

Russian forces pulling out of the area surrounding Kyiv left behind evidence of atrocities committed against civilians. The effort is now to try to build a war crimes case against the perpetrators.

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People fleeing the Ukrainian city of Mariupol arrive at a registration center for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on Thursday. They traveled in a small convoy that crossed through territory held by Russian forces, after the opening of a humani

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 21)

4:53pm April 21, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

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1 of the multiple blasts in Afghanistan hit worshippers in a mosque

4:41pm April 21, 2022

by Diaa Hadid

Bomb attacks in Afghanistan have shattered a relative lull in violence that had held since the Taliban seized power eight months ago.