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U.S. troops to head to Eastern Europe as Russia masses forces on Ukraine's border

4:29pm February 02, 2022

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby announced Wednesday that thousands of U.S. troops will be sent to Eastern Europe. The move comes during a major military buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine.

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Trees reflected in a window on a train from Kyiv to Slovyansk.

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The world worries of a Russian attack. But for these Ukrainians, war is already here

11:46am February 02, 2022

NPR travelled to the "temporarily occupied territories" on the Ukraine-Russia border, where the people who live there are in limbo – cut off from Ukraine, cut off from Russia, cut off from the world.

U.S. sending troops to Eastern Europe as Russia masses forces near Ukraine

11:22am February 02, 2022

by Tom Bowman

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that thousands of U.S. troops will soon be dispatched to Eastern Europe amid a major military buildup of Russian forces around Ukraine.

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India's skier Arif Khan poses on the sidelines of a training session in Austria last month.

At the Beijing Olympics, a Kashmiri skier will carry India's flag — all by himself

10:27am February 02, 2022

by Lauren Frayer

When you think of India, you might think of heat and humidity before snow. But India is home to parts of the Himalayan mountains. That's where Olympian Arif Khan first put on skis.

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This photo shows the Australian Navy's HMAS Adelaide docked at Vuna Wharf in Tonga's capital Nukualofa on Jan. 26 to deliver aid following the Jan. 15 eruption of the nearby Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai underwater volcano. Tonga's deputy chief of mission in A

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Tonga enters lockdown after first community transmitted COVID-19 cases detected

6:27am February 02, 2022

by Peter Granitz

Two wharf workers tested positive Tuesday. The Ministry of Health has been testing workers there amid international aid shipments after last month's volcanic eruption.

Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

A 104-year-old COVID survivor has died. He wanted to keep people safe until the end

5:14pm February 01, 2022

by Benazir Samad

In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.

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Turkey and Armenia discuss opening borders to more trade and travel

5:13pm February 01, 2022

by Peter Kenyon

Long-time adversaries Turkey and Armenia are talking about opening their border to more trade and travel. But it doesn't look like all the issues of the past will be dealt with yet.

What the history of U.S. sanctions can tell us about their sway on the Ukraine crisis

5:13pm February 01, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with assistant professor of history at Cornell, Nicholas Mulder, on the history of U.S. sanctions and the role they're playing now in the tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

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U.K.'s Boris Johnson visits Kyiv to stand with Ukraine and Putin remarks on tensions

4:33pm February 01, 2022

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In Moscow, Russian President Putin made his first public remarks on the crisis since late 2021.

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1 year since Myanmar's coup, the military has been unable to stamp out the resistance

4:33pm February 01, 2022

by Michael Sullivan

It's been a year since a coup threw Myanmar into chaos amid war crimes accusations against the military. Neither the military nor an increasingly organized resistance are showing signs of compromise.

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