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Reports Of Racism Fall Through France's Information Gap

12:57pm January 18, 2015

There were 1,274 incidents of racism in France in 2013, the nation's government reports, but it's not clear who was affected and how. NPR's Rachel Martin learns more from data analyst Mona Chalabi.

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Pakistan Pressures Afghan Refugees To Go Home

12:57pm January 18, 2015

by Philip Reeves

Authorities are responding with draconian measures following the massacre of more than 130 students in Pakistan. Officials are focusing on Afghan refugees, even though the killers were Pakistani.

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Guards Watch Muslim, Jewish Sites As Dark Mood Descends On Paris

12:57pm January 18, 2015

Police continue making arrests in Europe, saying they've halted terrorist plots. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston discusses the latest on the investigation into the attacks in Paris with NPR's Rachel Martin.

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Ireland's Health Minister Leo Varadkar, 36, who has publicly come out as gay.

Prominent Irish Government Minister Comes Out As Gay

10:59am January 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Leo Varadkar, speaking to Irish radio, also says he supports an upcoming referendum to approve same-sex marriage in the traditionally conservative Catholic country.

Smoke rises over the new terminal of Donetsk airport in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, where government troops have launched an offensive to capture the area from Russian-backed separatists.

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Ukraine Launches Major Offensive To Retake Donetsk Airport

10:10am January 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

After a night of intense shelling by government forces, much of the airport has reportedly been retaken from Russian-backed separatists.

A mentally disabled Yazidi man is carried to a bus that will bring him to the Kurdish city of Dohuk, after being released by Islamic militants, in Alton Kupri, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday.

ISIS Frees 200 Elderly Yazidis; Reportedly 'Too Expensive To Feed'

9:07am January 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The mostly infirm refugees from the religious minority were released by the self-declared Islamic State. Speculation is that they had become a burden to the militants.

Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives at Quirino Grandstand to celebrate his final Papal Mass in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday. In his homily, Francis warned about the Philippine government's

Record Turnout For Pope's Sunday Mass In Manila

8:08am January 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Francis concludes his four-day visit to the region's only predominately Catholic country advocating for the poor and warning against the government's "insidious" family planning program.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov (right), was arrested on charges of terrorism last year in Crimea shortly after Russia seized it from Ukraine. He's shown here at a hearing at Moscow's Lefortovo District Court on Dec. 26, 2014.

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Russia's Prominent Prisoners Reflect Tension With Its Neighbors

5:50am January 18, 2015

by Corey Flintoff

Russia is jailing three prominent figures from Ukraine and Estonia on what critics say are highly questionable charges. The cases also reflect the friction between Russia and its neighbors.

A rebel fighter takes aim during a training session in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside the capital Damascus, earlier this month. Russia is inviting Syrian opposition groups to peace talks in Moscow, but few of them want to go to a country t

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Syrian Opposition Groups Wary Of Russia's Invitation To Moscow

6:59pm January 17, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Russia is proposing peace talks in Moscow, and the U.S. seems to be backing the idea, but some opposition groups resist cooperating with a country that's been backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Wearing a yellow raincoat, Pope Francis gives a thumbs up to the faithful as he arrives in Tacloban, Philippines, on Saturday.

Storm Causes Pope To Cut Short Visit To Typhoon Hit Tacloban

6:10pm January 17, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Francis led a prayer in memory of the thousands killed in 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan — the strongest cyclone ever to make landfall.