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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday the agency is seeking to close all of its foreign field offices around the world, a move introduced by Director L. Francis Cissna. (Alex Brandon/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration seeks to close international immigration offices

The Trump administration is seeking to close nearly two dozen U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices around the world.

7 years ago

In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. An Australian judge sentenced Wednesday, March 13, the most senior Catholic, Pell, to be convicted of child sex abuse to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago. (Andy Brownbill/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

Australian cardinal sentenced to prison for child sex abuse

The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced in an Australian court to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys more than 20 years ago.

7 years ago

Anti-Brexit activists hold placards and wave flags as they demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Tuesday, ahead of a crucial vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal. (Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.K. Parliament rejects Theresa May’s Brexit plan yet again

The vote was a second chance for the prime minister to gain approval of the terms under which the U.K. will leave the EU on March 29.

7 years ago

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam.
Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the exhibit,
Arts & Entertainment

Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

7 years ago

Listen 2:11
A worker inspects damage in a supermarket in Caracas on Sunday after it was looted during a days-long blackout in Venezuela.
(Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
NPR
Community

‘This is going to end ugly’: Venezuela’s power outage drags on

Venezuela has been in the grip of a crippling blackout for four days — and the humanitarian situation there is growing increasingly dire.

7 years ago

The Clinton County volleyball team from Mill Hall and Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, is representing the U.S.A. at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi. (Marco Catini Photography/Special Olympics USA)
Community

Central Pa. volleyball team off to Abu Dhabi for Special Olympics World Games debut

The team has been Pennsylvania champion in its skill level for eight straight years, but this is its first chance at the Special Olympics World Games.

7 years ago

Listen 3:35
In this Friday, March 8, 2019 photo provided by the United Nations, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, third from right, executive director of UN Women, speaks at the United Nations Observance of International Women's Day at the United Nations headquarters. (Eskinder Debebe/The United Nations via AP)
Politics & Policy

Head of UN Women: Technology revolution must benefit women

She said the biggest challenge in implementing the U.N. goal of achieving gender equality by 2030 is the need to accelerate the pace and scale-up action.

7 years ago

In this photo taken from the Ethiopian Airlines Facebook page, the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, looks at the wreckage of the plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday March 10, 2019. An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said, as anxious families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (Facebook via AP)
Community

Jetliner crashes in Ethiopia, killing 157 from 35 countries

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the Boeing 737-8 MAX plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November, records show.

7 years ago

Venezuelan police block a crowd of people who gather to march against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, March 9, 2019. Security forces are deploying in large numbers in Caracas ahead of the planned demonstrations by supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido. (Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

More blackouts hit Venezuela as opposition, government rally

Tensions were only compounded further by a new power shutdown that came just hours after an earlier blackout in the country appeared to be easing.

7 years ago

NPR
Community

Afghan Ambassador Roya Rahmani: ‘We will not be going back to the time prior to 2001’

Afghanistan has come too far in the last 17 years to regress, she emphasizes.

7 years ago

Credit: Satellite image (taken Feb. 22) ©2019 DigitalGlobe Inc. Analysis by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. (Graphic by Alyson Hurt/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Activity at 2nd North Korean missile site indicates possible launch preparations

Commercial satellite imagery of a facility near Pyongyang suggests that North Korea is preparing to launch a missile or space rocket in the near future.

7 years ago

Reporter Susan Phillips (left) and Mary Saso check the details of their mock disaster on a tablet computer at the start of the training at Tokyo Bayshore Disaster Prevention Park.
The Pulse
Health

An amusement park that’s ready for anything

At the Tokyo Public Bayshore Disaster Prevention Park, learn how to survive without electricity, running water, heat, or air conditioning for 72 hours.

7 years ago

Listen 07:54
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Omar stirred controversy last week saying that Israel's supporters are pushing U.S. lawmakers to take a pledge of
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Ilhan Omar’s Israel comments and the reaction to them

Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about U.S.-Israel relations have drawn accusations of antisemitism. Today we discuss her comments and reactions to them, in government and beyond.

Air Date: March 8, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:45
The coal-fired Tata Mundra power plant in western India was funded by a branch of the World Bank. A group of farmers and fishermen are suing, claiming that contamination of local water sources has disrupted their livelihoods. (Sami Siva/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court rules that World Bank can be sued

The World Bank can be sued when its overseas investments go awry. And so can some other international organizations.

7 years ago

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks through an underground tunnel at the Capitol as top House Democrats plan to offer a measure that condemns anti-Semitism in the wake of controversial remarks by the freshman congresswoman, in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Dissent among Dems over response to Omar’s Israel remarks

A meeting of House Democrats turned contentious as some new members confronted leaders over a resolution implicitly rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar over her comments on Israel.

7 years ago

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