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NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels. With no evident progress toward ending Russia's war on Ukraine, European leaders in both NATO and the EU are redoubling efforts to provide military back-up.
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Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media InstitutePanahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.
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The U.S. and Russia met for hours Tuesday to discuss the peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. Both sides called the talks "constructive," but no concrete steps were agreed upon.
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NATO foreign ministers will meet in Brussels Wednesday, and the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine will be top of mind. But there will be a notable absence: The U.S.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Julianne Smith, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about the latest Ukraine peace talks and Europe's role.
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Bassem Khandaqji entered prison 21 years ago for plotting a deadly bombing in Israel. He left prison as an award-winning novelist. -
Belgium on Wednesday rejected a plan to use frozen Russian assets to help prop up Ukraine's economy and war effort over the next two years, saying that the scheme poses financial and legal risks. -
The story of wooden nesting dolls is not just quintessentially Russian -- it's also Chinese.
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Lithuanian authorities accused Belarus of deliberate disruption after weather balloons directed at Vilnius Airport's runways forced an 11-hour shutdown on Saturday. -
The Malaysian government says it will pay the robotics firm Ocean Infinity $70 million if it can locate the wreckage from the missing flight within a 55-day period. -
President Trump says he doesn't want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the U.S. -
A bitter dispute between East Asia's biggest powers, China and Japan, has moved to the cultural front. With both sides unwilling to back down, experts say it could be a protracted feud.
