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North Korea Linked To Cyber Attacks On Asian Banks

6:34pm May 27, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

Cybersecurity researchers are linking a recent spate of attacks against Asian banks to North Korea. The digital security firm Symantec says the recent breaches in Asia have identical lines of malicious software deployed in the high profile attack against Sony Pictures in 2014. The FBI has tied North Korea to the Sony attack.

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23 Athletes Test Positive After Samples From London Olympics Rechecked

6:06pm May 27, 2016

by Chris Arnold

The news follows revelations last week that retested samples from 31 athletes in the 2008 Beijing Games had suspicious results.

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Obama Advances Vision Of Nuclear-Free Future At Hiroshima Peace Memorial

5:50pm May 27, 2016

by Elise Hu

NPR looks at the significance of President Obama's visit to Hiroshima at the conclusion of his last trip to Japan as president. It was the first visit by a sitting U.S. president since an American warplane bombed the city during World War II.

Examining Obama's Nuclear Legacy

5:50pm May 27, 2016

by Philip Ewing

In Hiroshima, Obama plans to update his vision for ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Nuclear doves say they're underwhelmed with Obama's record on reducing the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

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Americans React To Obama's Speech In Hiroshima, Japan

4:31pm May 27, 2016

In a speech at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan on Friday, President Obama said the world had "a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history," and pursue a world without nuclear weapons. Across the U.S., Americans reacted to the president's speech.

In this 2014 photo, prisoners are closely guarded at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. According to state media, at least 200 male inmates were freed from this prison as a result of President Robert Mugabe's pardons.

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Zimbabwe Pardons Thousands Of Prisoners Because Of Overcrowding, Food Shortages

1:45pm May 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The move by President Robert Mugabe has reportedly emptied one women's prison of all but two inmates serving life sentences. All juveniles are said to have been pardoned.

People gather their belongings Friday as they leave a refugee camp because of an Islamic State offensive near Azaz, Syria.

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Doctors Without Borders Evacuating Key Syrian Hospital Amid ISIS Offensive

1:27pm May 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

ISIS reportedly has seized villages near Syria's border with Turkey, trapping tens of thousands of civilians. The evacuated hospital outside Azaz is the aid group's largest medical facility in Syria.

Kala Tanaka marks "stays" at the front of the canoe so they can go back in the same place after the mast is taken down to fit under the George Washington Bridge. The garlands of ti leaves, a Hawaiian tradition, were placed on the Hokule'a by well-wishers.

Hokule'a, The Hawaiian Canoe Traveling The World By A Map Of The Stars

9:37am May 27, 2016

by Sara Kehaulani Goo

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

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Kikue Takagi, left, narrowly survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing as a schoolgirl. She's now 83. Her second cousin is U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, a Democrat from southern California. His grandparents and parents were all placed in U.S. internment camps in Wor

A Survivor's Tale: How Hiroshima Shaped A Japanese-American Family

9:21am May 27, 2016

by Greg Myre

Kikue Takagi narrowly survived the atomic bomb that killed her classmates. Soon after she moved to California, where she worked for many years at Disneyland. Now in her 80s, she's back in Hiroshima.

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A First By A Sitting U.S. President: Obama Goes to Hiroshima

7:50am May 27, 2016

Hiroshima was destroyed in the first atomic bomb attack. Morning Edition talks to NPR's Scott Horsley and Elise Hu and Sheila Smith, expert in Japanese politics with the Council on Foreign Relations.

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