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Goats and Soda
A child receives a polio vaccine in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 14, 2022.

Vaccine-derived polio is on the rise. A new vaccine aims to stop the spread

Apr 26, 2022
Countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia are counting more cases of vaccine-derived polio. One reason for this, say experts, is that vaccination efforts have lapsed during the pandemic.
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Goats and Soda
A driver sits in the cab of a combine harvester during the summer harvest in a field of wheat in Varva, Ukraine. Ukraine accounts for more than 10% of the global wheat market. Russia's war threatens to disrupt the spring planting season.

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions

Mar 06, 2022
Both countries are huge suppliers of grains and other essential foods. And with widespread hunger and high food prices already, the war couldn't have come at a worse time.
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Politics
Last year, supporters of the Houthi rebels, attend a celebration of moulid al-nabi, the birth of Islam's prophet Muhammad in Yemen's capital Sanaa.

State Department Condemns Group It Removed From Terrorist List

Feb 07, 2021
The war between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi military has created world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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World
President Trump speaks during a Oval Office meeting Thursday with representatives of Israel and the United Arab Emirates, announcing an agreement to establish diplomatic ties between the two countries.

UAE, Israel Move To Normalize Relations As Israel Halts Planned West Bank Annexations

Aug 13, 2020
President Trump brokers the historic agreement. The United Arab Emirates and Israel will move toward bilateral diplomatic relations, and Israel will suspend plans to annex portions of the West Bank.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Railway staff in Pakistan use a thermal scanner to check visitors for coronavirus symptoms. Pakistan was one of the nine countries added to the U.N.'s new aid plan.

U.N. Humanitarian Aid Request Due To COVID-19 More Than Triples

May 07, 2020
"Unless we take action now, we should be prepared for a significant rise in conflict, hunger and poverty," the U.N. humanitarian chief says. In total, the aid would reach 63 countries.
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National
Acting Customs and Border Protection director Mark Morgan speaks with reporters in the briefing room at the White House, on Nov. 14, 2019.

CBP Chief Admits Officers 'Overzealous'; Critics Say Iranians And Others Targeted

Feb 13, 2020
The head of CBP says the Seattle field office was "corrected" after it questioned hundreds of Iranian-American citizens at a border crossing. But advocates fear this wasn't an isolated mistake.
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Middle East
A Turkish military convoy passes through the Syrian town of Dana, in Idlib province near the Turkish-Syrian border, on Sunday. It is there, in northwestern Syria, that friction between the country and neighboring Turkey has flared into direct violence.

Turkey, Syria Trade Deadly Strikes As Russia Watches Uneasily

Feb 03, 2020
Half a dozen Turkish troops and at least 13 Syrians died Monday in the Syrian border province of Idlib. The spasm of violence between the bitter neighbors also threatens to ensnare Syrian ally Russia.
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Middle East
Afghan service members head toward the site of the plane crash Monday in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni.

U.S. Plane Goes Down In Afghanistan, Prompting Wave Of Questions, Contradictions

Jan 27, 2020
A U.S. official tells NPR that two people died when the aircraft crashed in Ghazni province. The official blamed mechanical problems — but the Taliban claim to have shot it down.
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Middle East
Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said, seen during a 2010 ceremony in Muscat, died at the age of 79 after suffering for years from an undisclosed illness. After a half-century reign, he has been succeeded by Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.

Omani Sultan Qaboos, Who Ruled Oman For Half A Century, Dies At 79

Jan 11, 2020
The long-serving monarch named his successor, Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, who was sworn in as sultan Saturday. Under Qaboos, the tiny Middle Eastern state took on an outsize role in regional diplomacy.
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Politics
At the White House on Wednesday, national security adviser Robert O'Brien hears President Trump address the nation on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops.

Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With NSC Adviser Robert O'Brien

Jan 09, 2020
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with national security adviser Robert O'Brien about tensions with Iran and the future of the U.S. presence in the Middle East.
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Business

Oil Prices Reflect Concern, Not Panic, After Airstrike On Iranian General

Jan 03, 2020
Global oil prices rose by about 4% — a modest increase by historical standards — after the U.S. military killed Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force, in an airstrike in Baghdad.
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Middle East
Iranian demonstrators hold posters of slain Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani (center) and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a rally Friday in the capital, Tehran. The U.S. strike on the military leader in Baghdad has elicited warning

How Is The World Reacting To The U.S. Assassination Of Iran's Qassem Soleimani?

Jan 03, 2020
The prominent general's killing, carried out in an airstrike in Iraq, has elicited a wide range of responses — from vows of revenge to enthusiastic words of support. Here's a look at the fallout.
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Middle East
A vehicle burns outside a factory that was apparently hit with rocket fire Tuesday in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Israel's military announced it had killed a commander of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in an early morning strike on

Rockets Rain On Gaza And Israel After Airstrike Kills Militant Leader

Nov 12, 2019
"He was a ticking bomb," Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu said of Bahaa Abu el-Atta, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader killed Tuesday. Militants in Gaza have responded with rocket attacks of their own.
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Middle East
The late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an undated picture released this week by the Pentagon.

ISIS Confirms Baghdadi's Death And Names His Successor

Oct 31, 2019
The Islamic State named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new leader days after ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on his compound in northwest Syria.
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Middle East
Speedboats from Iran's Revolutionary Guard circle the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero on Sunday, July 21 in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, after it was seized in the Strait of Hormuz two days earlier.

British Oil Tanker Seized By Iran Will Be Released Soon, Iranian Official Says

Sep 22, 2019
The Stena Impero was detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19 for alleged marine violations. Iranian maritime officials have given no set date for its release.
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Middle East
Iranian officials are defending the seizure of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran's coast on Friday.

U.K. Fears Iran Is Taking A 'Dangerous Path' After Seizure Of Tanker

Jul 20, 2019
Iran took over the British-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and says it and its crew will remain in an Iranian port during a probe of an accident that Iran says led to the seizure.
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Goats and Soda
Two Syrian refugees, Narwal Alakayleh (left) and Lina AlAlssantin (right), prepare for a pop-up dinner of Levantine food at Newcomer Kitchen.

Why A Classic Levantine Dish Is Sailing From Canada To Syrian Refugee Camps

Apr 27, 2019
Refugee women from a group called Newcomer Kitchen are cooking traditional Levantine food for their community in Toronto — and have found a way to share it with displaced Syrians in the Middle East.
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Middle East
American citizen and 61-year-old psychotherapist Majd Kamalmaz, disappeared on a trip to Syria two years ago and has been missing since.

Family Of American Jailed In Syria Goes Public In An Appeal To Trump

Jan 20, 2019
The family of Majd Kamalmaz, 61, is making his story public for the first time, spurred by President Trump's plans to remove U.S. troops from the country.
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Middle East
The Pentagon has "begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria," a military spokesman says. In this photo from Dec. 30, 2018, a line of U.S. military vehicles are seen at a checkpoint in northern Syria.

U.S. Has 'Begun The Process' Of Withdrawing From Syria, Pentagon Says

Jan 11, 2019
The military gave no details on the departure timeline for the more than 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria "out of concern for operational security."
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Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech at the American University in Cairo on Thursday that was a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration's Mideast policies.

In Cairo, Pompeo Slams Obama's Mideast Policies, Says Era Of 'American Shame Is Over'

Jan 10, 2019
The top U.S. diplomat accused the Obama administration of making crucial errors that worsened a string of crises in the region, from the Arab Spring to ISIS.
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Middle East
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waits for his helicopter ride to the U.S. Embassy from Baghdad International Airport, during a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital.

Pompeo Makes Surprise Stop In Iraq During Mideast Trip To Rally Allies

Jan 09, 2019
The secretary's trip has two goals: to reassure allies amid the Trump administration's mixed messages on troop levels in Syria and to stress the U.S. commitment to fighting ISIS and countering Iran.
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Middle East
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a meeting with U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday, in an apparent snub. Erdogan disagrees with U.S. calls to protect Kurdish militants in Syria who have helped in the fight against ISIS.

Erdogan Cancels Meeting With Bolton, As U.S. Seeks To Reassure Allies On Syria

Jan 08, 2019
The meeting was canceled moments before it was to begin, reflecting Turkish anger over U.S. insistence that a Kurdish militia fighting in Syria be protected after American troops withdraw.
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Politics
President Trump addresses the crowd during a rally in support of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Monday in Houston.

FACT CHECK: President Trump's False Claims On Migrant Caravan, Tax Cuts

Oct 23, 2018
President Trump has been keeping fact-checkers busy with his campaign claims of Middle Eastern migrants and a 10 percent middle-class tax cut.
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World
Protesters duck as Iraqi security forces fire tear gas during a demonstration against unemployment and a lack of basic services in Basra.

U.S. Closes Consulate In Basra, Citing Iran-Backed Violence

Sep 29, 2018
The State Department is temporarily closing the U.S. Consulate in the southern Iraqi city and evacuating all diplomats stationed there, following a rocket attack early Friday morning.
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The Two-Way
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, is urging easing economic sanctions against Qatar.

Pompeo Urges Unity Among Gulf Countries, Pressure Against Iran

Apr 29, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is urging easing economic tensions with Qatar amid efforts by the U.S. to apply new sanctions against Iran.

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