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What, Really, Does 'Sustainable' Mean?

2:33pm September 23, 2015

by Marc Silver

A version of the word sustainable appears at least 75 times in the sustainable development goals the U.N. will endorse this weekend. We asked some analysts to tell us what, exactly, it means.

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In Hungary, Migrants Wait To Travel West

2:30pm September 23, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

Austria has halted all train traffic from Hungary, after 12,000 migrants arrived in a single day. Now there's a backlog of migrants at Budapest's main station who want to travel west.

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Seeking Asylum, A Syrian Woman Struggles To Get Family Out

2:30pm September 23, 2015

Mais Istanbelli left her home in Aleppo before the civil war began Syria. She's in Sweden, but her family is still in Syria. She tells NPR's Scott Simon what she's hearing from her relatives back home.

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Migrants seeking asylum wait at the registration center on August 27, 2015 in Ingelheim, Germany. Germany is receiving more than 1,000 new migrants a day from countries like Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan. In some cases, those migrants include unaccompani

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Young Migrants, Some Arriving Without Parents, Seek A Safe Place

2:30pm September 23, 2015

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

In Munich last weekend, 195 children seeking asylum showed up alone. The growing number of unaccompanied minors presents a special challenge to German authorities, who generally don't deport children.

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Selma Halik, holding her 2-year-old daughter Amara at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, says much of her family was wiped out by ISIS. She doesn't want her daughter to see the things she's seen.

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On Greek Island, Syrians And Iraqis Find Respite Before Moving On

2:25pm September 23, 2015

by Peter Kenyon

NPR's Peter Kenyon sends this postcard from the Greek island of Lesbos, where he met a Syrian woman whose relatives were killed by ISIS, and an Iraqi man who worked with U.S. forces.

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U.S. Works To Speed Up Refugee Response

2:25pm September 23, 2015

Anne Richard, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, tells NPR's Scott Simon the Obama administration wants to ramp up the number of Syrian war refugees it takes in.

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Russia's Military Deployment In Syria Reignites Contact With U.S.

2:25pm September 23, 2015

NPR's Scott Simon discusses Russia's new military deployments to Syria with Steven Lee Myers of The New York Times. Myers says Russia worries its client, Syrian President Bashar Assad, may soon fall.

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Germany Now Tempering Its Open Embrace Of Migrants

2:25pm September 23, 2015

by Rachel Martin

NPR's Rachel Martin is in Berlin, reporting on the migrant crisis there. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Martin about how the Germans and the asylum-seekers are handling the situation.

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Akhram Zaatari Untitled (Plane 6), 2013, by Akram Zaatari, Lebanon.

For Arab Artists With Something To Say, This Sheikh Is A Loudspeaker

2:19pm September 23, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Media personality and art collector Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi spends a fortune on artworks by living, Arab artists; then he shows them to as many people as possible.

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The International Monetary Fund says the U.S. and China have a combined annual gross domestic product of about $30 trillion.

U.S.-China Business Relationship Is, As Trump Might Say, Huge

2:11pm September 23, 2015

by Marilyn Geewax

Even U.S. companies that don't have close ties with China have to be concerned with its slowing growth. When China buys fewer goods and commodities, prices fall for producers everywhere.