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International

Beer bottles with crowned caps crowd the conveyor belts of a filling plant in the Veltins brewery in Meschede-Grevenstein, western Germany, in January.
(Rainer Jensen/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

Uh-oh, Germany is rapidly running out of beer bottles

In Germany, beer consumption is up as temperatures remain unusually high. This is good and bad news for the beer industry.

8 years ago

A child injured in a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Thursday rests in a hospital in Saada, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Yemen's shiite rebels are backing a United Nations' call for an investigation into the airstrike in the country's north that hit a bus carrying civilians, many of them school children in a busy market, killing dozens of people including many children. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The toll of wars in the Middle East

Guests: Nasser Arrabyee, Lee Keath, Shireen Al-Adeeimi, Joshua Landis Dozens of children were killed in a Saudi-l ...

Air Date: August 14, 2018 10:00 am

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Police stand in the street after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, Britain, on Tuesday
NPR
Community

Car crashes into security barriers at U.K. Parliament; At least 3 injured

A vehicle crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament in London early Tuesday

8 years ago

Thousands of Berliners come to Tempelhof on warm summer evenings, but there's always room for more. (Martin Kaste/NPR)
NPR
Community

The site of the Berlin airlift now serves as refugee shelter and big open park

8 years ago

Louisiana crawfish caught in waters in and around Berlin are on display at Fisch Frank fish restaurant in Berlin. They are an invasive species and authorities recently licensed a local fisherman to catch them and sell them to local restaurants. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

For Berlin, invasive crustaceans are a tough catch and a tough sell

In a shaded stream in the middle of Berlin's rambling Tiergarten park, fisherman Klaus Hidde lowered himself into the water recently.

8 years ago

Sen. Rand Paul, center, and his communications director Sergio Gor, right, enter a hall during their meeting with Russian lawmakers in Moscow Monday. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Rand Paul goes to Russia and delivers letter for Trump, marking our era of irony

Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his "counterparts."

8 years ago

In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Monday Aug. 6, 2018. The U.S. is bracing for cyberattacks Tehran could launch in retaliation for sanctions President Donald Trump has slapped back on Iran, cybersecurity and intelligence experts warn (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
Politics & Policy

U.S. braces for possible cyberattacks after Iran sanctions

U.S. intelligence agencies have singled out Iran as one of the main foreign cyber threats facing America

8 years ago

MAFRAQ, Jordan — Syrian refugee children at a settlement near the Jordan-Syria border on April 26, 2018. (© Mohammad Abu Ghosh/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
Education

Student voice: ‘Then one day a bomb exploded during my geometry class’

Fleeing Syria to pursue safety, education and a socially just world.

8 years ago

Mother Daniele Santos holds her baby Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly, on May 30, 2016 in Recife, Brazil. Researchers are now learning that Zika's effects can appear up to a year after birth.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Babies who seem fine at birth may have Zika-related problems later, study finds

Since Zika emerged as a threat to babies, it's been a mystery exactly how much of a danger the mosquito-borne virus poses to children.

8 years ago

People affected by the earthquake rest at a temporary shelter in Lombok, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's popular tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, triggering a tsunami warning, one week after another quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people. (AP Photo)

Powerful quake rocks Indonesia’s Lombok island, 39 dead

A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and shaking neighboring Bali.

8 years ago

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, survived an
NPR
Politics & Policy

Venezuelan officials say president Nicolás Maduro is unharmed after drone ‘attack’

Maduro was giving a live televised speech in the capital city of Caracas on Saturday when, a government spokesman said, explosive-carrying drones went off near the president.

8 years ago

Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Health

It’s ‘Shark Tank’ for global health inventions

Ten participants showcased a variety of innovations, each in different stages of development.

8 years ago

In this July 30, 2018, file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attends a swearing in ceremony for Robert Wilkie as Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump wants a Space Force, a new military service he says is needed to ensure American dominance in space. But the idea is falling flat at the Pentagon, where Mattis has said it would add burdensome bureaucracy and costs. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump wants a Space Force, but Pentagon has different idea

The administration intends to announce next week the results of a Pentagon study.

8 years ago

Vida Movahed stands on a telecommunications box, holding a headscarf on a stick in protest against Iran's mandatory hijab rules, in Tehran in December. Since then, Iranians have staged various protests for women's rights. (Abaca Press/Sipa USA via AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

In Iran protests, women stand up, lift their hijab, for their rights

Tension is rising between Iran and the United States these days. But Iran's leaders are facing pressure from various sides at home, too.

8 years ago

Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr warned about complacency over ongoing Russian attacks on the U.S. political system, at a hearing on Wednesday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
Community

This is ‘Not Fine’: New evidence of Russian interference meets inaction, frustration

"The extremes are screaming while the majority whispers."

8 years ago

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