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Russian propaganda in 2024 includes deepfakes, sham websites and social media swarms

10:20pm June 06, 2024

by Shannon Bond

The hallmarks of Russian-back influence are consistent: trying to erode support for Ukraine, discrediting democratic institutions and seizing on existing political divides.

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Israel used a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly U.N. school strike in Gaza

10:20pm June 06, 2024

Israel dropped a bomb on a U.N.-run school it said was being used by Hamas. The blast killed dozens, including women and children, medics and witnesses say. The bomb was U.S.-made, NPR has discovered.

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Biden commemorates D-Day invasion's 80th anniversary, linking it to Ukraine conflict

5:56pm June 06, 2024

by Bill Chappell

President Biden said the historic invasion is a reminder of the costs of freedom and democracy — and the value of alliances. He evoked Ukraine, saying the U.S., NATO and its allies won't "walk away."

This image, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, shows smoke billowing in the Palestinian territory at sunset following Israeli bombardment on June 2.

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Examining the state of Hamas on 3 fronts: troops, governance and narrative

5:35pm June 06, 2024

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war in Gaza can't end until Israel has destroyed Hamas.

NPR's reporting from Israel and Gaza suggests that goal is still a long way off.

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Fadi Zant, aged 9, experiencing malnutrition, receives treatment after evacuated from the northern Gaza Strip to the IMC field hospital in Rafah, Gaza on March 24, 2024. The Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine as Israeli attacks on the area enters its sixth month.

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Gaza's Hospitals Collapse, and Sick and Malnourished Children are Dying

4:53pm June 06, 2024

A father in Gaza tries to save his sick son as the family flees Israeli bombs, but their quest for treatment and the baby's skeletal frame reveal malnourishment is only part of the story.

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Tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists march for Jerusalem Day

4:10pm June 06, 2024

by Kat Lonsdorf

The annual march, part of Jerusalem Day, a national holiday, regularly inflames Israeli-Palestinian tensions. This year those tensions were even higher because of the war in Gaza.

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Morning news brief

3:16pm June 06, 2024

Israeli troops have launched a new offensive in central Gaza. A neighbor at the center of the Justice Alito flag controversy speaks out. The EU holds its election for parliament this weekend.

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1 in 4 children globally lives in severe child food poverty, UNICEF report says

3:15pm June 06, 2024

Despite progress in some countries -- Chad, Nepal and Peru for example -- A new report from UNICEF looks at rates of "extreme hunger" among children age 5 and under.

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On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, remembering a generation that will soon be gone

3:15pm June 06, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

President Biden is joining other European leaders in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that began the liberation of the continent from Nazi occupation in World War 2.

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American soldiers huddle inside a landing craft approaching Utah Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on D-Day.

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They were there on D-Day, on the beaches and in the skies. This is what they saw

12:34pm June 06, 2024

by Jack Mitchell

More than 150,000 U.S., British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. A small handful told NPR about their experience.