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The UN Security Council votes, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at the United Nations headquarters.

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  • Europe

Top Ukrainian official says Kyiv will refuse any 'bad' peace deal

Ihor Brusylo, deputy head of Ukraine's President's Office, tells NPR Trump is a "peacemaker and dealmaker," while expressing hope the U.S. continues to provide aid to Ukraine.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Vice President JD Vance talks in front of the NATO logo at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14.

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  • World

5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening

As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with increasing alarm.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands at the end of a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Monday.

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  • Politics

Trump and Macron meet in Washington as Europe pleads for continued help with Ukraine

During a joint press conference President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted their friendly relationship, even when they appeared far apart on the war in Ukraine.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2024, at U.N. headquarters in New York.

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  • World

U.S. votes against a U.N. resolution urging Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine

The European-backed resolution that was approved demands Russia immediately withdraw its forces. The Trump administration had offered a competing resolution that did not mention Russian aggression.

February 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Balloons depicting Pope Francis are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized, in Rome on Feb. 24, 2025. Pope Francis, in critical condition in hospital with pneumonia, had a good night and was resting, the Vatican said Monday.

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  • Religion

Pope rests in his 10th day of hospitalization but remains in critical condition

Francis, 88, had remained in critical condition throughout the weekend after severe breathing difficulties were reported.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock,
  • Willem Marx,
  • and 1 more
President Trump returns to the White House on Feb. 19 after spending the weekend and the first two days of the week in Florida.

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  • News

Macron, Trump to discuss Ukraine peace plan. And, Greenpeace faces $300 million lawsuit

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to present the European peace plan for Ukraine to President Trump today. And, Greenpeace faces a lawsuit that could shut it down.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
A rescue team gathers in front of a damaged residential building in Sumy just after a Russian drone strike that destroyed nine apartments and killed 11 people, Jan. 30.

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  • World

3 years on, here's what to keep an eye on in the Ukraine war — and efforts to end it

Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Amid a stark shift in U.S. policy, Ukrainians want the war to end — but not on Russia's terms.

February 24, 2025
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  • Charles Maynes,
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • and 1 more
Activists hold posters during a women's rights demonstration, Dec. 14, 2024 in Avignon, southern France, where the trial of dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband is taking place.

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  • World

A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly children

The trial comes as French activists are pushing to lift taboos that surround sexual abuse. The most prominent case was that of Gisèle Pélicot, who was raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of others.

February 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.

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  • World

Center-right opposition wins German election, with the far right coming in 2nd

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany doubled its support, projections showed.

February 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (

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  • News

Huge crowds gather in Lebanon for funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Palestinian families react after Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners, scheduled to be released in the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah early on February 23, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
The town of Peine, near the Salt flats and one of the closest towns to the lithium mining operations. 13th of April, 2024. Antofagasta, Chile.

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  • Latin America

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • John Bartlett
Candles are seen near pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, on Sunday, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Feb. 14.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis rested during a peaceful night following respiratory crisis

Pope Francis, in critical condition with a complicated lung infection, rested well during a peaceful night following a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican said Sunday.

February 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A woman lays a rosary on Saturday near candles adorned with pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is battling pneumonia in Rome.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says

The 88-year-old Francis has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection.

February 22, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Israeli hostages Averu Mengistu (4th-R) and Tal Shoham (L) are flanked by Hamas fighters as they stand on a stage during their release in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas releases Israeli hostages, returns remains of Shiri Bibas

Hamas to release the last six live hostages whose freedom they agreed to under the current ceasefire deal.

February 22, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
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