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People watch a TV showing a file footage of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 4, 2019. North Korea on Saturday fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said. (Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)
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North Korea fires several short-range projectiles into sea

South Korea's military has bolstered its surveillance in case there are additional weapons launches, and South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the details.

7 years ago

In this January 1954 file photo, three Americans who refused repatriation, take a smoke break outside the peace hut at Panmunjom, Korea. They were among 21 U.S. prisoners of war who refused to come home after the Korean War. The new PBS documentary
Arts & Entertainment

PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War

Filmmaker John Maggio said he wanted to create something that wasn't focused on solely on views of ambassadors and historians but real people affected by the war.

7 years ago

Customers walk near makeshift fruit and vegetable shops set in front of destroyed buildings in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa earlier this month. (Delil Souleiman /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

‘Indiscriminate strikes’: Amnesty criticizes U.S.-led coalition’s actions in Raqqa

According to Amnesty International, the U.S.-led coalition's offensive against ISIS in Raqqa killed nearly 10 times more civilians than the U.S. military has acknowledged.

7 years ago

A man reads a newspaper showing photos, from left of U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Seoul, South Korea, last week. North Korea test-fired a
Politics & Policy

North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon’

The test comes as North Korea and South Korea seem deadlocked after a failed nuclear disarmament summit in Hanoi between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Trump.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House in Washington.  Trump on Tuesday vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump vetoes move to end U.S. involvement in Yemen war

The veto — the second in Trump's presidency — was expected. Congress lacks the votes to override him.

7 years ago

WikiLeaks has made multiple disclosures over the past decade, including one in March 2017 when the group released what it said were CIA technical documents on a range of spying techniques. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

How much did WikiLeaks damage U.S. national security?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has often argued that no one has been harmed by the disclosures. But many in the national security community say the leaks were harmful.

7 years ago

This Jan. 12, 2016, file photo shows the exterior view of the headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Judges at the International Criminal Court have rejected a request by the court's prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan and alleged crimes by U.S. forces linked to the conflict. (Mike Corder/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

ICC judges reject Afghanistan probe; cite lack of cooperation

International Criminal Court judges rejected a request by the court's prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.

7 years ago

A U.S. Marine Corps carry team transfers the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher K.A. Slutman, 43, of Newark, Delaware, during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019,  in Dover, DE. Sgt. Slutman died April 8 while conducting combat operations in Parwan province, Afghanistan. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
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Marine killed in Afghanistan returned home to Delaware

Staff Sgt. Christopher K.A. Slutman was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and returned home to Delaware Thursday night.

7 years ago

In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2019, the children of genocide survivors and perpetrators play together in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, near Nyamata, in Rwanda. Twenty-five years after the genocide the country has six
Community

25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? 6 villages try

Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbor with a machete. Today he lives near the widow of the man he killed. And somehow they are friends.

7 years ago

Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican for a audience with students and teachers of the San Carlo Institute of Milan, Saturday, April 6, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pope blames Europe, U.S. for selling weapons in war zones

The pontiff said that "a country that produces and sells weapons has on its conscience the death of every child and the destruction of each family."

7 years ago

The office of International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (center) says her visa for U.S. travel has been stripped. The State Department confirmed the move Friday.
(Koen Van Weel /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

U.S. strips visa from International Criminal Court prosecutor pursuing war crimes inquiry

While the U.S. claims its citizens and military personnel are outside of the ICC's jurisdiction, the court says Afghanistan is within its purview.

7 years ago

Salvadoran migrants wait for transportation after turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas — where a border fence is under construction. The Pentagon says it will spend up to $1 billion to help build the fence. (Paul Ratje /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Pentagon takes $1 billion from military personnel account to build border fence

The Department of Defense is shifting $1 billion from a military personnel account to build a 57-mile fence at the southern U.S. border.

7 years ago

A Humvee drives in a village recently retaken from Islamic State militants by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near Baghouz, on Feb. 17.
(Felipe Dana/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

With the collapse of the ISIS ‘caliphate,’ a camera lens lingers on those left behind

As U.S.-backed forces fought to reclaim the last territory held by ISIS in Syria, photographer Felipe Dana turned his lens on the thousands of civilians rushing to evacuate.

7 years ago

A C-5M Super Galaxy takes off at Dover Air Force Base. A new maintenance hangar could be in jeopardy following President Trump’s emergency declaration at the southern U.S. border. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Zachary Cacicia)
Politics & Policy

McGuire, Dover Air Force bases face possible cuts to fund border wall

The Pentagon has identified $12.9 billion in projects — including work in Pa., N.J. and Del. — that could be scrapped to help fund President Trump’s border wall.

7 years ago

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Community

Rumbles and booms: Joint Base demolition training Thursday

Residents near Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst may hear “booms” and feel “rumbles” on Thursday. 

7 years ago

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