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A small museum of Palestinian embroidery in Jordan keeps ancient heritage alive

8:23am April 27, 2024

by Jane Arraf

Widad Kawar, 94, started collecting Palestinian dresses when she was a child in Jerusalem and founded a museum dedicated to Palestinian embroidery. She talks about what has been lost and what endures.

Displaced Palestinians in Rafah sit in the shade of their tent on a 100-degree day in the Gaza Strip.

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A 100-degree heat wave in Gaza offers a sweltering glimpse of a tough summer to come

8:12am April 27, 2024

The heat bore down on Palestinians living in tents and aid groups working in the sun. UNRWA reported several heat injuries among its staff, and at least one 18-year-old Palestinian died from the heat.

Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novelist, holds her latest book Woman, Life, Freedom, in her home in Paris, France.

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Iran women's protests are the focus of 'Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi's new book

5:01am April 27, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic anthology titled Woman, Life, Freedom, inspired by Iran's recent protests.

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People queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country's first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate "Freedom Day" every April 27.

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South Africa remembers an historic election every April 27, Freedom Day

4:36am April 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

South Africans celebrate their "Freedom Day" every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of apartheid.

A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sakani, who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shukri Jouda and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21.

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A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died

6:48pm April 26, 2024

The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.

Secretary Blinken talked economy, security and AI during trip to China

5:19pm April 26, 2024

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China's leader Xi Jinping. Washington and Beijing are engaging in talks over issues of economic development, global security, AI and more.

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Amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah, in southern Gaza, a woman and a girl search for items on April 24, following reported Israeli airstrikes overnight.

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What to know about a possible Israeli military offensive in Rafah

5:17pm April 26, 2024

In Gaza's southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter and where aid groups have centralized operations, worries have grown over a possible Israeli military operation.

The U.S. hasn't stopped aid for Israeli troops accused of human rights violations

5:01pm April 26, 2024

by Michele Kelemen

The State Department has found that some Israeli units were responsible for gross violations of human rights, but so far has stopped short of restricting U.S. aid to them.

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The fight for Congo's cobalt

4:49pm April 26, 2024

NPR's Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with professor Siddharth Kara on the fight for Congo's resources.

Israel prepares for Rafah offensive as U.S. plans to build new Gaza port

4:17pm April 26, 2024

Aid groups draw up contingency plans as Israel plans assault on Rafah, where most people in Gaza are displaced. Meanwhile, the U.S. is building a pier to deliver aid.

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