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Moscow's hostage game with Evan Gershkovich and the U.S. diplomats trying to free him

4:33pm March 29, 2024

by Jackie Northam

Evan Gershkovich, the journalist who's been detained in Russia for a year, has become a pawn in a larger game of prisoner swaps. The U.S. has created a special office to deal with hostage diplomacy.

Why the U.S. is absent from international seabed mining talks

4:33pm March 29, 2024

by Dan Ackerman

In Jamaica, international negotiations are underway over how to govern the mining of precious metals that can help fuel renewable technologies. But the U.S. isn't at the negotiating table.

Maynor Suazo Sandoval (right) and his mother visiting the Niagara Falls, in New York state.

'A generous man': Baltimore bridge worker helped family, community in Honduras

4:31pm March 29, 2024

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras when he was 20 and built a new life in the U.S. He is one of the missing workers from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich looks out from inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pretrial detention, at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, on Feb. 20.

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U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich has now spent a whole year jailed in Russia

2:47pm March 29, 2024

by Charles Maynes

It's been a year since Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on spying allegations.

Chocolate Easter bunnies wait to be decorated at a shop in Belgium.

Pricier Easter bunnies and eggs. Half-dipped Kit Kats. What's up with chocolate?

9:43am March 29, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

The price of cocoa is on a wild historic ride: It topped the all-time record before Valentine's Day and almost doubled since then, in time for Easter. The culprit is the weather.

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Longtime diplomat Victoria Nuland reflects on what she's learned over the decades

5:14am March 29, 2024

The nation's third-highest ranking diplomat retired this month. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Victoria Nuland about her career in diplomacy.

A Palestinian boy waits with his pot among a crowd in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, while trying to get a small amount of soup from one of the few soup kitchens, on Feb. 26.

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Boiling weeds, eating animal feed: People in Gaza stave off hunger any way they can

5:01am March 29, 2024

Palestinians in Gaza tell NPR they've resorted to boiling weeds in seawater, eating animal feed and grinding date pits. "If the bombs don't kill us, the hunger will," a teenage girl says.

In this image taken from video provided by eNCA, a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in Limpopo, South Africa, on Thursday killing multiple people, authorities said.

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A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people

8:15pm March 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

An 8-year-old child is only survivor. The passengers were headed to an Easter festival before the bus plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames.

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After a year in Russian detention, WSJ reporter's sister still fights for his release

4:50pm March 28, 2024

This Friday marks a year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russian security forces. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with his sister about how he's doing.

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A preview of NPR's reporting from Rwanda as it nears 30 years since genocide

4:50pm March 28, 2024

Thirty years ago, Rwanda experienced one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. NPR's Juana Summers reports from Rwanda about how the country has changed in the years since.

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