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At a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv on Sept. 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the 43 Unit 8200 refusniks of "baseless slander" which "should be condemned."

Snowden Reveal Makes Israeli Spies' Protest An American Issue

11:56am September 22, 2014

by NPR Staff

Forty-three veterans of Unit 8200, Israel's secretive surveillance organization, say they were directed to spy indiscriminately on Palestinians. Were they using intelligence gathered by the NSA?

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Syrian Kurds with their livestock wait behind a border fence near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on Monday. Some 100,000 Kurds have fled from Syria into Turkey amid intense fighting between peshmerga forces and ISIS.

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Kurds Say They Have Halted ISIS Advance Near Syria-Turkey Border

10:17am September 22, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Peshmerga forces say they are still engaged in fierce battles with Islamic State militants. The fighting has triggered a mass exodus of Kurdish refugees into Turkey.

The Arirang mass festival re-enacts the history of North Korea. The flag depicted in the background was created by audience members holding up cards.

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A Photographic Tour Of A Country That Doesn't Like Cameras

9:28am September 22, 2014

by NPR Staff

Photographer Julia Leeb traveled to North Korea twice on tourist visas and shares her experience with a book of photos called North Korea: Anonymous Country.

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Classrooms across Gaza are crowded with as many as 50 or 60 students, principals say, as dozens of school buildings have been destroyed or damaged, or are still housing people who lost their homes.

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In The Gaza Strip, The School Year Gets Off To A Rocky Start

9:22am September 22, 2014

by Emily Harris

Palestinian kids in Gaza went back to school this past week in buildings damaged by the war, with children homeless and traumatized, and more than the usual overcrowding they face every year.

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Presidential Rivals In Afghanistan End Dispute

7:15am September 22, 2014

by Sean Carberry

A power-sharing deal announced over the weekend ends the long dispute over who will lead Afghanistan. Afghan election officials announced that Ashraf Ghani is the country's next president.

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Canadian Surfers Ride Chocolate River's Waves For Miles

7:15am September 22, 2014

by Murray Carpenter

A muddy river in the Canadian province of New Brunswick is developing a reputation for its waves. A pair of surfers set a distance record, riding the wave of a tidal bore up the Petitcodiac River.

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Turkey Sees Influx Of Refugees Fleeing ISIS

8:31pm September 21, 2014

Thousands of terrified Kurds are fleeing ISIS and seeking refuge in Turkey. Some 100,000 people have moved across the border in the last two days. NPR's Arun Rath speaks to correspondent Deb Amos.

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Ugandan LGBT Activist Recommended For Asylum In U.S.

8:31pm September 21, 2014

by Tom Dreisbach

John Abdallah Wambere applied for asylum in the U.S. after Uganda passed a harsh anti-gay law earlier this year. His application has now been recommended for approval, pending a background check.

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Survivors and relatives of victims carry Kenya's national flags on the anniversary of last year's deadly attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya's capital of Nairobi.

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One Year After Kenyan Mall Attack, Few Answers Have Emerged

5:07pm September 21, 2014

by Bill Chappell

The people behind a vicious attack were identified as Islamist militants from Somalia, but few other details about the incident have been made public.

A Syrian family waits near the Turkish-Syrian border after entering Turkey near the town of Sanliurfa Sunday. An estimated 70,000 Syrian Kurds have fled the extremist group the Islamic State this weekend.

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Thousands Of Refugees Flee Syria In Chaotic Scene At Turkey's Border

4:53pm September 21, 2014

by Bill Chappell

While a U.N. agency reported about 70,000 refugees this weekend, a Turkish official says 100,000 Syrians have entered Turkey in the past week. Fighters from ISIS are closing in on the border.