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Minority Tartars Consider Pragmatic Approach To Crimea Annexation

7:53am April 21, 2014

by Corey Flintoff

Tatars were vocal in their opposition to the Russian takeover of Crimea. That's because they remember their history of maltreatment under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

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In South Korea, Ferry Rescue Efforts Yield Only Grisly Results

6:43pm April 20, 2014

by Arun Rath

It's been a grim Easter Sunday in South Korea as the death toll continues to rise from the ferry disaster that left nearly 300 passengers, many of them high school students, dead or missing.

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Russia's Military: Threatening Enough To Avoid Using Force?

6:28pm April 19, 2014

Russia is in the middle of a planned upgrade and expansion of its military forces, but global affairs professor Mark Galeotti tells NPR's Arun Rath that Russia's military has its limits.

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The Players In The Battle For India's Soul

6:28pm April 19, 2014

The numbers from India's election are staggering: 814 million potential voters, nine stages of voting over six weeks. They are the biggest in the world. Correspondent Julie McCarthy talks with NPR's Arun Rath about the candidates vying for power.

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Bringing Poetry And High Culture To Sao Paulo's Periphery

11:40am April 19, 2014

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Poetry in an unlikely place: In a grim urban shanty town in the middle of Sao Paulo, budding poets from the poorest sections of Brazilian society get together weekly to compose and recite poetry.

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Kenyan security officers rounded up people Friday as part of a crackdown that has swept up thousands of undocumented refugees, immigrants and Kenyan citizens of Somali descent in recent weeks.

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Somalis In Kenya Are Used To Raids, But They Say This Was Different

8:12pm April 18, 2014

by Gregory Warner

A police sweep after Friday prayers is the latest in a weeks-long crackdown against terrorism. The operations have pulled in thousands of refugees, immigrants and Kenyan citizens of Somali descent.

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Disaster On Everest Marks Deadliest Day In Mountain's History

7:13pm April 18, 2014

by NPR Staff

More than 13 Nepalese climbers died while preparing a route on Mount Everest for Western climbers. Grayson Schaffer of Outside Magazine explains that local porters and guides bear the brunt of the danger on these extreme climbs.

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Inmates To Be Moved Temporarily Out Of Infamous Iraqi Prison

11:10am April 18, 2014

Kelly McEvers talks to Ned Parker, Baghdad bureau chief for the Reuters news agency, about the temporary closure of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Its 2,400 inmates will be transferred.

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Colombia Mourns Death Of Favorite Son: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11:10am April 18, 2014

by Juan Forero

Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died on Thursday. He made Colombia synonymous with literature, particularly the dreamlike, whimsical story-telling known as magical realism.

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Many Sunken Ferry Victims Believed To Be Trapped Below Deck

11:10am April 18, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

The rescue and recovery mission is continuing off the southern coast of South Korea after a ferry capsized earlier this week. More than 200 people are missing. Bad weather is hampering the efforts.

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