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Once Bitten, Twice Decried: Uruguay Outraged By Suarez Punishment

4:26pm September 03, 2014

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Luis Suarez's sponsors are dropping him and his 2014 World Cup is over. FIFA dealt the Uruguayan soccer player an unusually harsh sentence for biting his opponent, and his home country is outraged.

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in December.

In Iraq, Coordination With Iran Not Impossible, Gen. Dempsey Says

4:26pm September 03, 2014

by Scott Neuman

"I'm not predicting that it's entirely impossible that we would at any point act collaboratively with Iran," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tells NPR.

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Europeans throw away 90 million tons of food each year, including these vegetables pulled from waste bins of an organic supermarket in Berlin. A new German website aims to connect surplus food with people who want it.

Got Leftovers To Share? In Germany, There's A Website For That

4:26pm September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Europeans throw away about 90 million tons of food each year. A new German website aims to ratchet that number down a bit by connecting people with leftovers to spare with people who could use them.

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U.S. Program Helps Africans Learn Entrepreneurial Skills

8:56am September 03, 2014

David Greene talks to Enitan Kuku, who's from Nigeria, and Mildred Apenyo, who's from Uganda, about a U.S. State Department entrepreneurial fellowship for young leaders from Africa.

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Ukraine Announces Cease-Fire With Russia

8:22am September 03, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Ukraine's president says he and Russian President Putin have agreed to a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. Putin's spokesman says since Russia isn't a party to the conflict it can't agree to a ceasefire.

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State Dept. Officials Work To Verify Islamic State's Beheading Video

7:14pm September 02, 2014

In a new video released by the militant group Islamic State, American journalist Steven Sotloff appears to be killed by extremists associated with the group.

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North Korea Grants Interviews With American Detainees: To What End?

7:14pm September 02, 2014

Two U.S. news organizations, CNN and the Associated Press, were granted interviews with three men detained by North Korean authorities.

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Savvy PR Campaign Has Lured Many To Fight In Syria's Civil War

8:26am September 01, 2014

More than 500 people may have traveled from the U.K. to Syria to fight in its civil war. Arun Rath talks to Jessica Stern, author of Terror In The Name Of God, about how it's drawing Westerners.

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Islamic State Suffers Rare Defeat In Amerli

6:45pm August 31, 2014

by Peter Kenyon

On Sunday, Iraqi and Kurdish forces broke a nearly 80-day siege by the Islamic State on the town of Amerli, where residents now have enough food and water for the first time in weeks.

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Why The British Allowed The Rotherham Abuse To Fester

12:33pm August 30, 2014

The Guardian's Randeep Ramesh tells NPR's Scott Simon about the social and societal forces at work in British culture which might have contributed to the cover-up of the Rotherham child abuse case.

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