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Citizens take a photo at a light festival in celebration of 110th birth anniversary of their late leader Kim Il Sung at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, April 14, 2022.

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N. Korea marks key anniversary, but no word on army parade

1:39am April 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

North Korea is marking a key state anniversary Friday with calls for stronger loyalty to Kim Jong Un, but there was no word on an expected military parade amid heightened international tension.

Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury appears during pregame warmups at Footprint Center in Phoenix last fall.

What Brittney Griner's detention in Russia tells us about basketball's gender pay gap

9:29pm April 14, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

"The reality is, she's over there because of a gender issue ― pay inequity," the head of the WNBA's players union said this week about the basketball star who's been detained in Russia since February.

Benjamin Wittes and a group of demonstrators in Washington, D.C., teamed up to project two large Ukrainian flags against the Russian Embassy for nearly four hours Wednesday night.

Meet the activists who projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C.

8:32pm April 14, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Demonstrators used high-powered lights to project the Ukrainian flag onto the walls of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Russians tried to outshine the flags with a spotlight, but failed.

The first known interstellar meteor hit Earth in 2014, U.S. officials say

6:06pm April 14, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The meteor crash-landed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in January 2014.

Russian navy officers line up on the deck as the guided missile cruiser Moskva (Moscow) sailed into a harbor after tracking NATO warships in the Black Sea, in the port of Sevastopol, Crimea, Nov. 16, 2021. Russian authorities said the Moskva sank Thursday

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 14)

5:18pm April 14, 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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Day 50 of war: Major Russian Black Sea warship is damaged as an oil ban looms

4:31pm April 14, 2022

by Tim Mak

From a severely damaged Russian warship in the Black Sea to the beginnings of what might become a ban on Moscow's oil exports, here are the latest developments 50 days into Russia's war on Ukraine.

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What the ruthless new commander of Russia's military signals for war in Ukraine

4:20pm April 14, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Elizabeth Tsurkov of the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Foreign Policy about Russia's new top commander in Ukraine, Gen. Dvornikov, who is notoriously ruthless.

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More Russian troops and artillery head into eastern Ukraine

4:20pm April 14, 2022

by Tom Bowman

Ukraine says it scored a direct hit on the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet. Meanwhile, Moscow is moving more troops, artillery and helicopters into eastern Ukraine ahead of an expected offensive.

As the war in Ukraine continues, so does the threat to a global food crisis

4:20pm April 14, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, about the ongoing food insecurity problem in Ukraine during the war.

Encore: How do you give a whale a pregnancy test? One way — check its poop

4:20pm April 14, 2022

by Eve Zuckoff

The orange excrement of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales — so called because they were once seen as the right ones to hunt — can give researchers a window into their health.