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India begins voting in its general elections with a prominent opposition leader in jail

8:00am April 20, 2024

by Jane Arraf

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with reporter Pavni Mittal about the Indian elections which began this week and will end in June. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term.

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Art is helping children cope with displacement from the Lebanon-Israel border

8:00am April 20, 2024

by Jane Arraf

Children are among the hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border. In south Lebanon, an arts program is trying to restore some normalcy to their lives.

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What Iran's military strategy can tell us about the war

8:00am April 20, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Masoud Mostajabi, deputy director of the Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, about Iran's military strategy with its proxies in the region as well as Israel.

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The story of an American man whose wife is being detained by China's secret police

6:52pm April 19, 2024

by Emily Feng

China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.

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This Nigerian chess master aims to raise money by playing the longest continuous game

6:52pm April 19, 2024

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.

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Now a poet, a boy in Jamaica could barely read until a teacher-in-training came along

6:52pm April 19, 2024

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.

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India's six-week long elections started today

6:41pm April 19, 2024

by Diaa Hadid

Nearly a billion people start going to the polls in India Friday, as the worlds largest democracy starts its mammoth election.

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What's next with Israel and Iran

4:49pm April 19, 2024

Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other's territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.

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Gaza cease-fire resolutions roil U.S. local communities

4:49pm April 19, 2024

by Jim Zarroli

As local elected officials continue to face pressure to pass resolutions calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza, some aren't sure how or whether to take a stand at all.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on April 16.

Here's what's in the House foreign aid bills

3:29pm April 19, 2024

The House bills largely mirror a foreign aid package that passed the Senate in February, with aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The House has an additional bill targeting Iran, China and Russia.